Yes, and the title was rewritten as well [1].

Submitters: please use an article's title unless it is linkbait or misleading [2].

1. Submitted title was "Google Publishes C++, Go, Java and Scala Performance Benchmarks"

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

and this phrase on page 7 highlighted

    The benchmarking itself was done in a simple and 
    fairly un-scientific fashion.

    ... older Pentium IV workstation. Run-times were
    measured using wall-clock time.

but still a good read about tweaking c++ (I think at the time, clang and gcc were still implementing the C++11 standard features).

Also i remember long HN threads about this in mid 2011 but i can't find them, here'a a later discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4539668

yes - 2011

http://research.google.com/pubs/pub37122.html

Venue : Proceedings of Scala Days 2011

Publication Year: 2011