Increasing D's visibility

[Peter Alexander via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 16 September 2014 at 17:32:39 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 9/16/14, 9:44 AM, Kagamin wrote:
>> I'd say, run the damned benchmark for C and D. C would setup 
>> performance
>> scale. What would be interesting is to see, how compiler 
>> switches affect
>> performance, especially assert vs release mode and bounds 
>> checking on/off.
>
> I agree that C and D should be enough. Perhaps C++ and one more 
> near the top (Ada, Fortran) would be good for context.
>
> Who wants to do this? Isaac made his setup publicly available.

I'll take a stab at it. Will give me something to do on my 
commute :-)  (assuming his scripts work, or can be made to work 
on OS X).