std.benchmark ready for review. Manager sought after

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 4/8/12 5:46 AM, Piotr Szturmaj wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> 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.
>
> For algorithms that process sequences, it would be nice to have results
> represented in cycles per item, This should give more consistent results
> across different CPU familes and different clock speeds.
>
> Specifically, I think about cycles per byte, see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycles_per_byte
> Example: http://www.cryptopp.com/benchmarks.html

The framework aims at generality and simplicity. I'd rather have it 
simple and universal rather than subtle.

Andrei