std.benchmark is in reviewable state

[Timon Gehr]

On 09/26/2011 05:59 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Monday, September 26, 2011 11:43:52 Robert Jacques wrote:
>> Great, but MS still recommends benchmarking be done on a single core. And if
>> MS thinks that is how benchmarking should be done, I think that's how we
>> should do it.
>
> And how would you ensure that? Beyond having your application be single-
> threaded, I'm not aware of any way to have any control over whether a
> particular process is run on a single core or not. Generally, that stuff is
> completely managed by the OS and the hardware and is outside the control of
> the programmer. I'm not saying that there definitively isn't a way to ensure
> that a process only runs on one core, but I'm not aware of one.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

There are API functions to do that on any reasonable OS.