Benchmark suite

[bearophile]

As you may know recently the Computer Shootout site has dropped many languages, among them there's D, Psyco (Python), etc. People that like Ruby language (and Jruby, etc) have created a benchmark suite, useful to tune implementations, compare their performance, spot some bugs, spot some performance bugs, etc:

http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-benchmark-suite

A similar performance suite may be created for D too, but to not put blinders on the eyes it's essential to add to such suite some benchmarks in other languages too, like Java (for the GC), C or C++ with GCC (for general optimization), and maybe more.

As starting point the programs of the Shoout are fine, but I think few other things can be added (to benchmark exceptions, compiling time, and some other interesting things that the Shootout doesn't benchmark now).

Bye,
bearophile