It wasn’t long ago that we introduced you to a web site, the Godbolt compiler explorer, that allows the visitor to compile code using a slew of compilers and compare their output. We suspect some ...

The SunSpider JavaScript performance benchmark, devised by the developers of the WebKit browser engine, is used and quoted widely as a measure of browser scripting performance. A surprising result was ...

What makes a good benchmark and who should create it? This is an issue the industry has been slow to address, but progress is being made. Benchmarks long have been used to compare products, but what ...