Judging by the difference in his numbers between C and C++ he did not have a slightest clue of what he was doing. I could imagine a slight difference is possibl

Judging by the difference in his numbers between C and C++ he did not have a slightest clue of what he was doing. I could imagine a slight difference is possible if you use default compiler switches due to exception handling and difference aliasing rules, not 3x as he has.