>> Quite a bit better than I expected.

> I think we were all expecting that.

Well, minator said he was not, in the posting you just replied to ;-) And I'm siding with him here in that the results of the Cortex-A15 vs. Krait and Swift are better than expected (by me).

> they choose to compare it to some pretty lame processors.

They compared it to what is relevant for this site to compare, i.e. the top-end chips used in mobile Android and iOS devices.