wc2 is faster than wc, but unless I am missing something, I can't find an instance where the author benchmarked wc2 with the core state machine loop replaced wi

wc2 is faster than wc, but unless I am missing something, I can't find an instance where the author benchmarked wc2 with the core state machine loop replaced with branches. wc2 and wc might be compiled with different flags / use a different strategy for IO, which makes it hard to compare speeds directly. The theoretical speedup of branches is tiny compared potential speedup of changing your compiler flags!