CompileTime performance measurement

[David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 4 September 2016 at 00:04:16 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
> Based on that experience I have now implemented another pseudo 
> function called __ctfeTicksMs.
> […]
> Please tell me what you think.

Please don't. This makes CTFE indeterministic.

To write performance tests, just measure compilation of a whole 
program (possibly with -o-). The variance due to the 
startup/shutdown overhead can trivially be controlled by just 
executing the CTFE code in question often enough.

  — David