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Ok, so your hypothesis is that this benchmark is fairly frequently executed, so that it's reasonable to think that a precompiled version is stored somewhere?

In that case, to avoid the accusation of cheating, the choice of precompiled code should have an algorithmic basis : For instance, something akin to Alexa rank of the .js at various CDN. That would make sure that JQuery would be precompiled, which could well be rational.

But I seriously doubt that such an objective method would include this benchmark code in the IE precompiled payload...




If they have the ability to precompiled JS code, they would, of course, precompile the benchmark. Why would you run a benchmark in "slow" mode if you had a fast mode available? There's nothing wrong with precompiling the benchmark.

I'm not saying that's what they are doing, because I don't know. I'm saying that the conclusion of cheating is unfounded.




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