Basic benchmark

[Don]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Anyway, all that said,  it's not clear that we really do have that
> mythical "uber backend" available right now.
> 
> According to my conversations on the clang mailing list, the current
> target is for LLVM to be able to fully support a C++ compiler by 2010.
>  I'm not quite sure what all that involves, but apparently it includes
> things like making exceptions work on Windows.

I wonder if there's any chance of getting a LLVM D compiler working 
before the LLVM C++ compiler works? <g>