D compiler benchmarks

[Jason House]

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).

I don't think it's proper to limit solutions to either Phobos or Tango, or either D1 or D2. Why not include all mixes of standard libraries, compilers, and major D versions?

I've always heard Tango is faster... Let's see proof!
Similarly, D2 aims to do multithreading better. I'd love to see performance and code differences between D1 and D2.