[disclaimer: I work on Dart VM] Surely Richards and DeltaBlue are not ideal. Honestly I don't think there is such thing as an ideal benchmark. However both Ric

[disclaimer: I work on Dart VM] Surely Richards and DeltaBlue are not ideal. Honestly I don't think there is such thing as an ideal benchmark. However both Richards and DeltaBlue capture performance aspects of language features that are used by absolutely any object oriented program: cost of method calls, polymorphism, field accesses, etc. We are definitely looking into publishing more benchmarks on this page. In the meantime feel free to benchmark Dart yourself and report any performance issues.