[phobos] Proposal of StopWatch module

[SHOO]

(2010/08/18 5:06), Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> The google unittest library largely considers benchmarking as part of
> unittesting, so if we have some other ideas for unittest tools the
> benchmark could be bundled with them in e.g. std.unittesting.
>
> Otherwise, I'd rather try to integrate new stuff within existing
> modules. That's why I put benchmark in std.date.
>
>
> Andrei
>
> On 08/17/2010 02:47 PM, David Simcha wrote:
>> What else might std.benchmark contain? I assume the main point of
>> stopwatch will be benchmarking, and I really despise ridiculously fine
>> grained imports like Tango, gtkD or the Tango standard library, where I
>> have to import 30 different modules to accomplish anything useful.
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 3:37 PM, SHOO <zan77137 at nifty.com
>> <mailto:zan77137 at nifty.com>> wrote:
>>
>> (2010/08/18 3:19), David Simcha wrote:
>>
>> Looks good. One small convenience feature I'd like, though, is the
>> ability to do simple microbenchmarks with less boilerplate,
>> something like:
>>
>> import std.stopwatch, std.stdio;
>>
>> void main() {
>> writeln(timeMillisecond({
>> // Do stuff.
>> });
>> }
>>
>> timeMilliseconds would simply take a void delegate(), time its
>> execution
>> and return the time it takes in milliseconds. Similar things
>> could be
>> done for timeMicroseconds and timeSeconds.
>>
>>
>> I think that it is not the function of the stopwatch.
>> How about making std.benchmark? :)
>> There seems to be room for some arguments about the interface.
>>
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In the first place, I temporarily named std.stopwatch, but doubt it.
Where is the best place to put this?

I doubt std.date.benchmark's module, too.
It isn't related on date clearly.
Such a false setting is often examined in Phobos.