Parameterized unittests and benchmarks (aka quickfix + benchmark) PR 2995

[tchaloupka via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 8 September 2015 at 09:20:08 UTC, Robert burner 
Schadek wrote:
> On Tuesday, 8 September 2015 at 09:07:10 UTC, Edwin van Leeuwen 
> wrote:
>> Just to be clear. The PR is to add the needed ground work for 
>> adding benchmark, or does it also add some benchmarks itself?
>
> The PR adds benchmarks for some functions of std.string.
>

I sort of like what Rust is using: 
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/master/src/test/bench

If we can have similar benchmarks suite which can be tested with 
every release, it can help to spot speed regressions or promote 
new optimisations.