Intel BOT seems to be patches for specific binaries (hence why they didn't see a difference for Geekbench 6.7), unlike BOLT/Propeller which are for arbitrary programs. The second image from their help page [1] showcases this.

[1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...

Applying targeted binary patches shouldn't take 40 seconds... unless that's also a fake "so it looks like it's working really hard" delay.

I might be thinking of a different project then...

I swore Intel had their own PLO tool, but I can only find https://github.com/clearlinux/distribution/issues/2996.