Writing a blog post like this and running benchmarks on several combinations of OS, language and compiler options and different tools takes so much effort and t

Writing a blog post like this and running benchmarks on several combinations of OS, language and compiler options and different tools takes so much effort and time. We should be very thankful to the people who do this. I've done it a couple of times myself... but it was so much more effort than I thought, literally weeks non-stop, that I don't think I will be doing it again any time soon.