How to benchmark a virtual machine?

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Hi all, “New Virtual Machine” is on the roadmap for Q2 (April-June) 2026

It cites an ‘initial 5x speedup’. I’m interested in creating a snippet to give some indication of the current baseline.

Does anyone have ideas for this? Types of operations that are currently pain points?

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You’ll see speedups with the new VM across the board. Some operations improving by more than 5x. There are multiple areas worth benchmarking, but here’s one snippet that should see a massive improvement:

TestAddToArray(Count:int):[]int =
    var Nums:[]int = array{}
    for (I := 0..Count):
        set Nums += array{I}
    Nums

Main():void =
    TestAddToArray(100000)
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