On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 11:35 AM Gracjan Polak
I was looking nearby recently and you might want to take into account my discoveries described in https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/11501
Thanks a lot for mentioning it! (I didn't see this ticket/discussion) I don't want to get in your way - did you already start working on something? Do you have some concrete plans wrt. nofib?
From my side, I was recently mostly interested in using nofib to measure the performance of GHC itself. Nofib already tries to do that, but it's super flaky (it only compiles things once and most modules are small). So I was thinking of improving this, but when I started to look into it a bit closer, I decided that it might be better to start with the build system ;) And then add options to compile things more than once, add some compile-time only benchmarks, etc.
Thanks, Michal