Review of Andrei's std.benchmark

[Simen Kjaeraas]

On 2012-21-09 22:58:36, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> On 9/21/12 5:39 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

>> After your replay to one of Manu's post, I think I misunderstood the
>> std.benchmark module. I was thinking more of profiling. But are these
>> quite similar tasks, couldn't std.benchmark work for both?
>
> This is an interesting idea. It would delay release quite a bit because  
> I'd need to design and implement things like performance counters and  
> such.

I certainly think the two use cases are similar enough to warrant their
inclusion in a common module. That does not preclude std.benchmark being
included as is now, and extended with profiling features at some later
point.

-- 
Simen