We do not endorse benchmark cheating - its a corporate policy - no exceptions.
Basically its unfair for end users - I would be very unhappy if I purchased a product because it had high benchmarks but then bad game performance - so I want to treat our customers like I want to be treated - its the right thing to do.
We do test and profile benchmarks - as we do all major games. We will try to ensure we have not done anything which makes the benchmarks run poorly - but we do not put in optimisations which would not benefit real world applications.
Thanks,
-Nadeem