I mean there is a direct link two comments down from here from 30 minutes before your comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49902477
Christ this forum has become intellectually dishonest.
> There are recorded cases of real regressions, but they're better characterised as incidents, not nerfs
So I found this incident, as they called it, to still be relevant and why benchmarks such as the OP are useful.