The general idea of coming up with a way to benchmark these things is excellent and the OP is a worthy effort to get started.
Thanks for that effort.

Hopefully somebody can set up such a test using our code base.

Unfortunately we're launching two real-time blockchains this month (BitShares and PeerTracks' MUSE) so we're a bit busy.

But we'll be keeping tabs on how this goes.

Thanks
Stan