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> a justification why the geometric mean is used here would increase my
> confident significantly.

It's just a standard way to summarize sets of benchmarks. For example SPEC 
uses the same approach.

Anyways the script is not essential to the rest of the profile feedback
feature.  Just ignore it if it's controversal.

-Andi