Parameterized unit testing and benchmarking of phobos

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 10/9/14, 9:36 AM, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> Am Thu, 09 Oct 2014 08:11:33 -0700
> schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>:
>
>> On 10/9/14, 1:01 AM, Robert burner Schadek wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 9 October 2014 at 00:13:25 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> If you love your braces you gotta love your indentation. They come
>>>> together... -- Andrei
>>>
>>> I guess you're right, but back to the topic.
>>> Has anyone tried something similar for phobos? (I couldn't find
>>> anything) Does anyone else consider the idea worth pursuing?
>>
>> Not yet but I think we need to create a task and a plan for adding
>> the old std.benchmark to std.experimental.benchmark, and use it
>> internally for Phobos. -- Andrei
>
> +1, std.benchmark should be revived. There's still the constructor
> cycles issue but we can probably find workarounds. In the worst
> case we do not generate constructors but runBenchmark functions and
> call these manually via some runAllBenchmarks("std.xyz", "std.abc")
> template magic)

My suggestion is to first use it in std.internal for a couple of months, 
and only then propose it for inclusion. -- Andrei