Benchmark suite

[bearophile]

The Anh Tran:
> It firstly compiles to C, then invokes gcc to do the rest. With the same 
> algo, same idea, same trick, and same background compiler, you should 
> have similar speed.

Think about replacing C with asm in your period:

>It firstly compiles to asm, then invokes the assembler to do the rest. With the same algo, same idea, same trick, and same background assembler, you should have similar speed.<

And ATS has a refined (compared to C) type system, that can make practical difference in the way you write ATS code, even if at the end it's all converted to C.

Bye,
bearophile