Basic benchmark

[Tomas Lindquist Olsen]

bearophile wrote:
> I have adapted another small benchmark to D. This benchmark is less interesting than the other ones because it mostly tests the optimizations done by the back-end. This means it's not a problem of the D language or its front-end, so even if DMD here shows to be not much efficient, LDC once finished may show significant improvements.
> As usual I may have done several errors, so keep your eyes open.
> 

..snip..

> 
> Timings:
> 
> C gcc:
>   Long arithmetic: 11.15 s
>   Nested Loops: 0.11 s
> 
> D dmd:
>   Long arithmetic: 63.7 s
>   Nested Loops: 6.17 s
> 
> Bye,
> bearophile


I tried this out with Tango + DMD 1.033, Tango + LDC r847 and GCC 4.3.2, my timings are as 
follows, best of three:

$ dmd bench.d -O -release -inline
long arith:  55630 ms
nested loop:  5090 ms


$ ldc bench.d -O3 -release -inline
long arith:  13870 ms
nested loop:   120 ms


$ gcc bench.c -O3 -s -fomit-frame-pointer
long arith: 13600 ms
nested loop:  170 ms


My cpu is: Athlon64 X2 3800+