Review of Andrei's std.benchmark

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:00:29 -0400
Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> On 9/21/12 11:12 AM, Manu wrote:
> > On 21 September 2012 07:45, Andrei Alexandrescu
> >
> >     Currently std.benchmark does not expose raw results for the
> > sake of simplicity. It's easy to expose such, but I'd need a bit
> > ***more convincing about their utility***.
> >

(Emphasis added for proper context.)

> >
> > Custom visualisation, realtime charting/plotting, user supplied
> > reduce function?
> 
> Hrm, that sounds like an entire new project.
> 

That doesn't diminish their utility.

Keep in mind, nobody's suggesting putting all of that into
std.benchmark (certainly not initially anyway), but the idea is to at
least have the door open for them.