std.benchmark ready for review. Manager sought after

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 4/9/12 11:29 AM, Francois Chabot wrote:
>> Which is great, unless the program wants to measure the cache memory
>> itself, in which case it would use special assembler instructions or
>> large memset()s. (We do such at Facebook.)
>
> I disagree. If a regression suddenly causes a function to become
> heavily cache-bound, it should show up in benchmarks somehow,
> regardless of the previous expected behavior of the function.

But cache binding depends on a variety of cache characteristics, i.e. 
the machine. The question is whether we accept a heavy dependence of the 
benchmark on the machine.

Andrei