On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 08:59:57 UTC, ixid wrote:
One of D's potential massive wins is speed and I think that has the most easily conveyed impacted on the audience. If we had the best benchmark site for a very large range of languages it would not only draw people here but drive the improvement of D on all compilers (and perhaps allow us to make LDC/GCD for run speed, DMD for compile speed more explicit) as every time there is a benchmark contest we seem to find some small thing that needs a fix and then D blows others away. This would also convey more idiomatic D for performance as D seems to suffer from people writing it as whatever language they come from. People love competitions, the current benchmark site that seems to weirdly dislike D is one of people's go to references. I do not have the ability to do this but it would seem like an excellent project for someone outside the major development group, a Summer of Code-esque thing.
You mean this site? http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/
