On Tuesday, 8 September 2015 at 08:24:43 UTC, Robert burner
Schadek wrote:
Why not go really big. aka:
http://forum.dlang.org/post/vzcvwrbqpeamtnopm...@forum.dlang.org
You suggest to create a benchmark suite from all the unittests in
Phobos?
I don't think this is a good idea. Most programs don't make good
performance tests. Even the Benchmarks Game / Shootout benchmarks
are partially stupid. For example, threadring measures context
switching. The best strategy is "use pthreads and pthread mutex
and restrict to one core". It only shows how good your language
can access the pthread API. The context switching is done by
Linux. The pidigits programs basically measures libGMP
performance.
I'm all for adding more programs into the benchmark suite, but
they should be carefully selected to measure different aspects. I
don't understand all the programs enough to know what is lacking.
Probably some memory management aspects. Maybe some concurrency
stuff.
