Dreaming up a benchmarking suite of stacks

[Richard Gaskin]

Malte Brill wrote:

 > inspired by a post by Geoff, I started thinking that it would
 > be rather cool to have a suite of stacks that lets us benchmark
 > the performance of the different engine versions.

Brilliant idea!

I've been pondering making one for a different purpose, for comparing 
relative performance of a given engine version across different 
machines.  The same stack could be used well for both purposes.

Ideally such a stack would include activities that represent a fairly 
complete range of things we use LC for, including moving objects on 
screen, parsing and concatenating text, math, etc.

Even better if these were made as separate stack files so multiple 
people can be working on them.  Even better if others decided write 
their own for their own purposes as well.

I'd be happy to donate server space and bandwidth for hosting the the 
main stack and its modules at LiveCodeJournal.com.

If someone's willing to take on the role of manager for this to 
coordinate the spec the various module stacks would use, I'd be more 
than happy to create a forum section we could use for managing the project.

-- 
  Richard Gaskin
  LiveCode Community Manager
  richard at livecode.com