OK, that's obviously insane. Yet here we are. See this Reddit thread for discussion.

The original README describes the original usage and some genesis of this code. I've changed it quite a bit.

As before you need to start by generating the data to be benchmarked over. Go to the gen/ subdirectory and say

cargo run --release ../acgt

This will take a while and generate 3GB of data.

Now go back to the top and say

sh try.sh

This will build the two binary versions of the counter program (counts instances of G and C in the datafile) as debug and ndebug, and run each of them in sequential mode with timing information.

From there, have fun with it. My friend and I did.