some memory allocation/GC benchmarks here - fwiw

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-learn]

(not translated into D yet)

http://blog.mgm-tp.com/2013/12/benchmarking-g1-and-other-java-7-garbage-collectors/
http://www.mm-net.org.uk/resources/benchmarks.html
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/will/GC/sourcecode.html
http://yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/benchmark.html

it's possible we already have better ones in phobos test suite, 
but maybe interesting also to be able to compare to other 
languages/platforms.