Although the fact that elapsed time is in minutes whilst the other times are in seconds, might have something to do with it....

Last time I checked, 11 minutes was greater than 250 seconds. ('%e' is the default format for user/system time [seconds], '%E' is the format time for elapsed time [minutes]. The different formatting should have been a big hint).

I agree. He's not testing compiled code performance, he's just created a set of tests which will all be memory bandwidth limited. FTA:

That's all I needed to read to ignore him completely. Completely and utterly pointless. If g++ won, it is likely because it utilised stream intrinsics to avoid writing data back to the CPU cache, which would have freed up more cache, and minimised the number of page faults. This will not in anyway test the performance of the CPU code, it will just prove that your 1333Mhz memory is slower than your 3Ghz processor . This is why you don't profile code (wrapped up in a stupid for loop), but profile whole applications instead. From my own tests (measuring the performance of large scale applications using real world data sets), intel > clang > g++ (although the difference between them is shrinking). The author of the article hasn't got a clue what he's doing. FTA:

No it isn't. It's because your CPU is sat idle whilst it waits for something to do.

Most tech companies prefer to hire experienced engineers from overseas, than inexperienced graduates from next door. (Certainly that's what we did when I worked for a tech company in Oxford anyway....)

I imagine they're blocked by patents.

But all I want to know is, will sudo rm -rf / delete the internet?

Really? There were people claiming that XP wasn't as good as ME? Or that Windows Vista was better than 7? Really? Windows 8 is turd. It's the first version of windows I got a refund for.

You forgot bitcoin.

Amiga OS?

Windows 8 does have a start menu, it's just takes up the whole screen.
In windows 7 explorer, pressing 'alt' will give you the old menus back - and the toolbars were moved to the start menu.
No idea where they went in WIndows 8. My experience with windows 8 primarily involved getting a refund.

They don't remove features, they just move them to somewhere less convenient.....

To be fair, users leaving windows, are likely to have a few more brain cells than those sticking with windows 8. Just saying...... ;)

My mac only has one button, you insensitive clod!

Are you sure you want to go with NT though? I heard that Windows 98 is better for games.....

= the GPU on an AMD A10