Thanks for re-measuring. You started off saying — "some of the results of those benchmarks do not hold on modern CPUs" — but the first Java time you measure is

Thanks for re-measuring. You started off saying — "some of the results of those benchmarks do not hold on modern CPUs" — but the first Java time you measure is actually slower than the time shown on the benchmarks game? Please consider using JMH to make your repeated Java measurements: https://github.com/openjdk/jmh/ https://github.com/openjdk/jmh/