Increasing D's visibility

[Thomas Mader via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 16 September 2014 at 01:43:15 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> That would be exactly what's needed. Who's volunteering?

I guess I already somehow did.
I am in the "progress" of building a benchmarking suite: 
https://github.com/ThomasMader/benchmark

Currently it is possible to benchmark some of the benchmarks from 
benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org.
For the moment I start with Java and port the benchmarks directly 
to D and benchmark dmd, gdc and ldc versions. I also benchmark 
the compilation because I find it important for a language 
comparison. I plan to include other languages which make sense 
(like C++) to compare them against D but not the full set from 
the benchmarksgame.

I would like to make it platform dependent. (Win, Linux, Mac)
In the moment it's Linux only though and measures everything 
exactly the same as on 
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/play.html with the 
exception of code-used.
I tried to keep out external dependencies so I am not using 
libGTop for the measurement but implemented it myself.
I am not sure if the code-used measurement is meaningful or not 
so if anybody has some arguments please elaborate.

Everything is printed to stdout only for now because 
serialisation is missing. I have not yet decided which format I 
use but I don't want to implement something. It needs to be in 
phobos. I thought about JSON or XML but AFAIK the phobos 
implementations will be replaced in the future. It should be 
widely accepted and should have less overhead. (Don't like XML 
for that matter)

If anybody has some remarks regarding any matter don't hesitate 
to put them here.

This is a fun project for me to get to write and learn D and 
maybe help D to get some more attention.
But don't expect fast progress. ;-)

Thomas