We should port Brian's mechanism for automatically running benchmarks and come up with a couple of benchmarks, both micro-benchmarks and realistic model simulations (e.g. the classical CUBA, COBA sims). This should include comparing the different code generation targets and maybe comparisons to as a reference.

It would also be good to include memory usage in addition to speed, but I'm not sure how feasible that is.

This issue is not a high priority, though, first we need to make the simulations run, then we can worry about performance :)