Excerpts from bugs's message of Wed Feb 06 17:24:02 UTC 2008:
> 
> New submission from Eric Kow <eric.kow@gmail.com>:
> 
> It would be really useful to have a quick and dirty benchmarking script that we
> can either distribute with or alongside darcs
> 
> The script would just encode some current darcs benchmarking practices: namely,
> getting a repository, obliterating a 1000 patches and pulling them back.  Having
> it do the best of N trials is probably a good idea too.  Automatically
> summarising the results (% improvement) would be nice too.
> 
> Perhaps a good way to do it is to have it be parameterisable with two
> directories (with darcs built in both) and a repository.  To avoid people having
> to choose a repository, we could also distribute the GHC one as the prototypical
> large-ish repository and hopefully set our sights higher one day.
> 
> Also, I think it's more important for us to have a basic version of this script
> now, than a fancy one later :-)

I'm  currently working on such a script. I'm playing with it in my spare time,
and it's not yet usable.