I have a hard time seeing the value in a Mandelbrot benchmark. I absolutely don't have a problem with benchmarks that make Haskell look bad (e.g. directory trav

I have a hard time seeing the value in a Mandelbrot benchmark. I absolutely don't have a problem with benchmarks that make Haskell look bad (e.g. directory traversal, regex), but I would like a benchmark that provides insight into the code you'd feasibly be writing in that language.