Re: a benchmark suite for Emacs

[Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>]

> - a local clone of a git repo
> - a program/shell script that produces an executable given that
>   git repo and a commit
> - a directory in the git repo with Lisp files containing tasks to be
>   benchmarked
> - a range of commits (as for git-rev-list(1))
> - a number of commits to select from the range
>
> it can use the shell script to build older versions of Emacs from
> commits selected from the commit range given, run the tasks in those
> older Emacs, record timing data, errors, process output and messages,
> and then produce a report in the form of an org-mode file ready for
> org-babel-gnuplot.

Is it like Diffbench for Ruby?  Something like that was sorely missed
for a long time in Emacs.