Parameterized unittests and benchmarks (aka quickfix + benchmark) PR 2995

[Robert burner Schadek via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 8 September 2015 at 12:24:19 UTC, tchaloupka wrote:
> On Tuesday, 8 September 2015 at 09:20:08 UTC, Robert burner 
> Schadek wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 8 September 2015 at 09:07:10 UTC, Edwin van 
>> Leeuwen wrote:
>>> Just to be clear. The PR is to add the needed ground work for 
>>> adding benchmark, or does it also add some benchmarks itself?
>>
>> The PR adds benchmarks for some functions of std.string.
>>
>
> I sort of like what Rust is using: 
> https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/master/src/test/bench
>
> If we can have similar benchmarks suite which can be tested 
> with every release, it can help to spot speed regressions or 
> promote new optimisations.

Have you taken a look at the source of the PR. It does exactly 
that.
Of course not ever function of phobos will get its benchmark in 
this PR, but this makes it easy to create benchmarks.