D compiler benchmarks

[Robert Clipsham]

Georg Wrede wrote:
> Robert Clipsham wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have set up some benchmarks for dmd, ldc and gdc at 
>> http://dbench.octarineparrot.com/.
>>
>> There are currently only 6 tests all from 
>> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/d.php. My knowledge of phobos is 
>> not great enough to port the others to tango (I've chosen tango as ldc 
>> does not support phobos currently, so it make sense to choose tango as 
>> all compilers support it). If you would like to contribute new tests 
>> or improve on the current ones let me know and I'll include them next 
>> time I run them.
>>
>> All source code can be found at 
>> http://hg.octarineparrot.com/dbench/file/tip.
>>
>> Let me know if you have any ideas for how I can improve the 
>> benchmarks, I currently plan to add compile times, size of the final 
>> executable and memory usage (if anyone knows an easy way to get the 
>> memory usage of a process in D, let me know :D).
> 
> The first run should not be included in the average.
> 

Could you explain your reasoning for this? I can't see why it shouldn't 
be included personally.