[OT] benchmarking "typical" programs

[David Hodgkinson]

On 19 Sep 2012, at 12:09, Nicholas Clark <nick at ccl4.org> wrote:
> 
> Does the mighty hive mind of london.pm have any suggestions (preferably
> useful) of what to use for benchmarking "typical" Perl programs?


Does benchmarking the test suites for a representative subsection
of the CPAN world count?

And what precisely are you attempting to benchmark? The core behaviour
of the perl interpreter itself, or the edge cases of domain-specific
work such as parsing XML in pure perl?