Re: Benchmarking harnesses for a more modern nofib?

Ryan Newton writes:

Hi all, Is anyone currently working in, or interested in helping with, a new benchmark suite for Haskell?  Perhaps, packaging up existing apps and app benchmarks into a new benchmark suite that gives a broad picture of Haskell application performance today?

I am very interested. I recently encountered a serious performance regression from 7.8 to 7.10 which seems to be fixed in 8.0. Now it's not clear whether this was a library change or ghc itself. I suspect the latter but given the performance is better in 8.0, I was not motivated to confirm this. I am happy to wrap up my example in whatever format but note that it does pull in quite a few libraries. Dominic.