Luajit? D? Test scripts.
Hi Isaac, thanks for keeping this project alive.
I have few unrelated questions.
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What happened to Luajit? In old benchmark there were both Lua and Luajit. Luajit is really fast in a lot of benchmarks. What was reasoning behind including only one? luajit is in Debian stable repos.
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What happened to D? LDC and GDC are both in Debian stable repos, and are production ready compilers.
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Why do you run benchmarks on Ubuntu and not Debian? :)
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Would be nice to have a easy to download scripts (tar.gz or git clone), where all one needs to do is download, install recommended dependencies (compilers, etc), run simple shell script that will run all available programs in all available compilers, and generates a customized page. This way one can test new versions of compilers, test their hardware, tweak compiler options, etc. I found u64q.ini in some other issue, but it is really a mess, it assume fixed paths to almost all interpreters and compilers, and they look to be installed in a lot of weird locations, instead of just using PATH. Only few of the compilers / interpreters used there are not in Debian repos, yet almost all of them are in /opt. That makes everybody life harder - yours because you need to keep all compilers / interpreters up to date, manually download and install stuff, etc, and others because they need to reproduce same setup or fix all the fixed paths to point to their installation.
It would really help people contribute if they can make things going fast.