call for GC benchmarks

[Brian Schott via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 4 January 2015 at 05:38:06 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> I'd like to have a few more real world GC benchmarks in 
> druntime.
> The current ones are all rather micro-benchmarks, some of them 
> don't even create garbage.
>
> So if someone has a program that is heavily GC limited, I'd be 
> interested in seeing that converted to a benchmark.
>
> Made the start with one 
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/1078 
> that resembles a mysql to mongodb importer I wrote recently.

You could try building really old versions of DCD. I converted my 
entire D parsing library to allocators several months ago and got 
a huge speed boost.