std.benchmark ready for review. Manager sought after

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Hello,


I finally found the time to complete std.benchmark. I got to a very 
simple API design, starting where I like it: one line of code.

Code is in the form of a pull request at 
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/529. (There's some 
noise in there caused by my git n00biness). Documentation is at 
http://erdani.com/d/web/phobos-prerelease/std_benchmark.html.

If reasonable and at all possible, I'd like to bump the priority of this 
proposal. Clearly D's user base is highly interested in efficiency, and 
many of the upcoming libraries have efficiency a virtual part of their 
design. So we should get std.benchmark in soon and require that new 
addition come with benchmarks for their essential functionality.

My vision is that in the future Phobos will have a significant 
benchmarks battery, which will help improving Phobos and porting to new 
platforms.


Andrei