I haven't put real thought into this, but it seems that in principle, given enough understanding of the runtimes, you can create good benchmarks of the collecto

I haven't put real thought into this, but it seems that in principle, given enough understanding of the runtimes, you can create good benchmarks of the collector. You would have to find patterns that force it to allocate/collect similar amounts of data, but that's doable. However, to your point, so far as the languages tend to allocate more or less data on the heap, that might change which benchmarks look good, the same way that you'll care about different automotive benchmarks if you want to tow a trailer or race.