Parent might mean this:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;danluu.com&#x2F;integer-overflow&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;danluu.com&#x2F;integer-overflow&#x2F;</a><p>It starts with 2x like kibwen says. Then says those ops will only be small part of workload or something. Extrapolating lead to 5%. Article goes on from there.<p>Not sure if it applies here but it matches the claim you quoted of micro vs macro benchmark.