>> Uh... how helping fix compiler bugs? Could we help with that? I feel that's *much* more important than benchmarking, for instance, since it doesn't make sense to benchmark something if it has bugs. :\ > The funny thing is that sometimes it makes perfect sense, as benchmarks _do_ push the limits of, for instance, GC and may reveal a latent bug ;)
Those are a very specific class of bugs -- bigger bugs like compiler errors with handling templates are completely unrelated to benchmarking, and they can be a deal breaker for many people. I don't think anyone cares about *speed* as much as *correctness*... would you rather have your 50% accurate program be twice as fast, or have your 100% accurate program be half as fast?