The Computer Language Benchmarks Game

[qznc via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 4 August 2016 at 20:15:35 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> We don't hear about the following site here any more:
>
>   http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/
>
> How relevant is that site for us? Should D be represented there 
> as well? Would someone (you? :p) be interested in adding D to 
> the languages there?
>
> There is the following page where the author may not be willing 
> to add a new language but the measurement code is available for 
> others to use:
>
>   http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/play.html#misc
>
> Ali

I did play with the benchmarks for a while: 
https://bitbucket.org/qznc/d-shootout

Ultimately, my opinion is that the benchmark is outdated and not 
useful today. I ignore it, if anybody cites the benchmark game 
for performance measurements.