Hmm... looks like he never came back to properly benchmark it with the right version, never did a version with the multithreaded call, and has a 1x number that

Hmm... looks like he never came back to properly benchmark it with the right version, never did a version with the multithreaded call, and has a 1x number that is suspiciously different from everyone else who ran the benchmark in the Gist. Peculiar.