I worry when people do benchmarks like this. People ignore the context that half the post is about and picks out the 3 lines where X performs better then Y. T

I worry when people do benchmarks like this. People ignore the context that half the post is about and picks out the 3 lines where X performs better then Y. The Y crowd dislikes this so jumps at the article attacking it (eventually degrading into flamewar) Ignoring of course that the first thing the author says is "it depends" and does everything he can to establish he is NOT saying that X is faster then Y rather that the optimizations or something that X provides does increase the performance of that operation (backed with some simple benchmarks).