Where can I see them?

No I'm asking to see the benchmarks too!

If the developers were to eliminate their usage of tables for design, vBulletin would get a speed increase from:

1. Less Bloat
2. More Efficently Rendered Code
3. Lower Server Loads as a result of faster page transfers (and therefore shorter connection times)

vBulletin 3.0.x did reduce the amount of bloat (and therefore made pages transfer faster and be efficently rendered while reducing server loads as a consequence of the connections closing faster) but not to the extent as it would have if it had a tableless design (all presentation done by the CSS). Other forum software has done this:

http://forums.punbb.org/

Tableless designs are not all they are cracked up to be, I would be supprised if any vB style is tableless untill 2010

This is a personal opinion and not related to any thing but my own views and feelings.

Then again, that punBB default skin is the ugliest skin I have ever seen in my entire life. It is dull. Heck, it's even worse than the wBB default skin.

Besides, Im sure there's SOME coding that just can't be done without tables - I know that I like working with tables better than divs.