Compilation benchmarks for D publicity

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
news:hv8d7c$2e5f$1 at digitalmars.com...
> This post: 
> http://www.realworldtech.com/forums/index.cfm?action=detail&id=110745&threadid=110549&roomid=2
>
> ...has made me realize that it would be very good for D if we had some 
> good D-vs-C++ *compilation* benchmarks. Something template-heavy, and 
> preferably real-world. Or maybe something specifically 
> meta-programming-heavy that has four versions:
>

Come to think of it, another good benchmark to have (not really a 
compilation benchmark this time, though) would be D (with and without 
FastCGI) vs PHP. Adam already posted some encouraging ad-hoc results, but a 
real benchmark would be a great thing to have. Would probably be difficult 
to design/run though. But if the overhead from using PHP really does rival 
or surpass the overhead from using plain vanilla CGI, then a reliable 
benchmark could clear up the long-held misconceptions about CGI, and give 
anyone who's server allows custom CGI an extra reason to go from PHP to D.