Blacksmith's GitHub Actions runners finished the same job 3 to 4 times faster than GitHub hosted Actions, across 10 trials

I benchmarked Blacksmith against github-hosted ubuntu-latest with 10 repeated trials each on an identical GitHub Actions job. Blacksmith ran 3.17x to 3.77x faster with noticeably tighter variance, but it wouldn't even queue until I moved the repo into an organization.

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