"All this is actually covered in the article"

Then answering none of my questions.

None of your "answers" you quote answers anything to me.

> Again, to pick a somewhat easily-reproducible benchmark, we want a decently-sized module that’s relatively standalone within the project

Why not take netty src? Why is a module more easily reproduceable? We chose a decently sized module because we want a decently sized module does not explain anything.

What about IO? Why lines with comments and empty lines? Or do you even? There is no mentioning in the text as far as I can see, "lines/second" implies this, but then you say "source lines per second", does this include empty lines? I think any compiler can compile a >1.000.000.000/second of empty lines in one file that is already paged into memory.