Hi, I have talked so much about it, it was about time to actually follow through. I took a real-world program (tttool, one of mine, show shameless), inlined all the dependencies so that it would compile without Cabal, just with a single invocation of GHC on the 277 modules. The state, including a README, can be found at https://github.com/nomeata/tttool-nofib#turning-tttool-into-a-benchmark I am not sure how useful this is going to be: + Tests lots of common and important real-world libraries. − Takes a lot of time to compile, includes CPP macros and C code. (More details in the README linked above). It is late, so I’ll just send this out as it is for now to get the discussion going if this is a useful approach, or what should be done different. (If this is deemed to be useful, I’d do the same for, say, pandoc next). Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim “nomeata” Breitner mail@joachim-breitner.de • https://www.joachim-breitner.de/ XMPP: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de • OpenPGP-Key: 0xF0FBF51F Debian Developer: nomeata@debian.org