Benchmark suite

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:43 AM, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
> 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:
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> http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-benchmark-suite
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> Bye,
> bearophile
>

I'd imagine the Computer Shootout has only dropped many languages on
the newer platforms since there aren't implementations for them.
Getting GDC to work on x86-64 is a daunting task, or so I've heard.
D's still in all the older benchmarks.