Benchmarking harnesses for a more modern nofib?

[Dominic Steinitz]

Ryan Newton <rrnewton <at> gmail.com> 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.