Increasing D's visibility

[Peter Alexander via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 17 September 2014 at 18:30:37 UTC, David Nadlinger 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 17 September 2014 at 14:59:48 UTC, Andrei 
> Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Awesome. Suggestion in order to leverage crowdsourcing: first 
>> focus on setting up the test bed such that adding benchmarks 
>> is easy. Then you and others can add a bunch of benchmarks.
>
> On a somewhat related note, I've been working on a CI system to 
> keep tabs on the compile-time/run-time performance, memory 
> usage and file size for our compilers. It's strictly geared 
> towards executing the same test case on different compiler 
> configurations, though, so it doesn't really overlap with what 
> is proposed here.
>
> Right now, its continually building DMD/GDC/LDC from Git and 
> measuring some 40 mostly small benchmarks, but I need to 
> improve the web UI a lot before it is ready for public 
> consumption. Just thought I would mention it here to avoid 
> scope creep in what Peter Alexander (and others) might be 
> working on.

That sounds great. I'm not planning anything grand with this. I'm 
just going to get the already exiting benchmark framework working 
with dmd, ldc, and gdc; and put it on github so people can 
contribute implementations.

I imagine what you have could probably be extended to do 
comparisons with other languages, but I think there's still value 
in getting these benchmarks working because they are so well 
known and respected.