Mscion, while my measurements were accurate, I believe I did not have swap on SD yet. If you do, your ED running from an image on eMMC could well be already faster than what I started with, and therefore you may not see as big a difference.
After switching my swap to SD I have not done any new benchmarks, but I am almost sure ED became slower, for the reason Estel explained.
Moving ED to eMMC should solve that, so I am guessing you will see similar or slightly better performance to what I had when doing the measurements.
I just reflashed, and I don't have ED re-installed yet (I was waiting for news on Estel's image), so I can't check atm.
But I do intend to install it again, and since these measurements are pretty much the only useful thing I have to contribute, I will try to do some new ones.