Language benchmarks

[AndrewAPrice]

Does anybody know of a set of benchmarks with little to no dependencies that can easily be ported to a new language to test algorithmic speed?

[embryo]

Does anybody know of a set of benchmarks with little to no dependencies that can easily be ported to a new language to test algorithmic speed?

Here is the list of common benchmarks.

But your question is not clear. What do you mean using word "easily"? And how do you think it should be taken into account that every language has different compiler? And execution environment - Java has JVM+compiler vs C has compiler only. Do you speak about language or algorithm or compiler or environment? Languages should be compared in one way, algorithms - in second way, compilers - third way and so on.

[Combuster]

There existed an older experiment that did that, but this one is probably as good as any approach to demonstrate the total performance of the entire chain of implementation.