Your claim guys is amateurish, the power of Arch stands in simplicity and customization, it works way faster than Ubuntu overall, not in batch tests which have nothing to do with the distribution, but rather the kernel, filesystem, compile flags and so on. Optimizing Arch is just a matter of editing the compile flags in /etc/makepkg.conf and rebuild the packages which matter with the descriptions in /var/abs - that's it!

My girlfriend is on Arch + a heavy customized GNOME and I can confess: her installation is noticeable slower than mine - possibly even slower than a default Ubuntu installation - although I didn't touch this distro for some years - I'm on XFCE, but she said that she will move over XFCE soon (after some exams). So this is the issue, one has to know what - and sometimes how - to install in the system. Linux is Linux and the dumbest distribution can lead in such tests - because the Kernel does its job - anyway.
Cheers.
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