Luca's meaningless thoughts

I'm trying to make a benchmark suite to evaluate different GC implementations.

What I'm looking for is:

• Trivial benchmarks that stress corner cases or very specific scenarios. For example, I collected a few of this posted in the NG and other sources in the couple last years (most showing problems already solved):
  • http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=46407
  • http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=43991
  • http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/GCBenchmark
• Working real-life programs, specially if they are GC-intensive (for example programs where pause times are a problem and they are visible to the user) and they are easy to get timings for (but not limited to that). Programs should be opensource in principle, but if they are not please contact me if you are willing to lend me the code for this research at least. I don't know yet if I will be targeting D1, D2 or both (probably D1), so feel free to submit anything. The only condition is the program should compile (and work) with the latest compiler/Tango versions.

Feel free to post trivial test or links to programs projects as comments or via e-mail.

Thanks!