[development] opt-in performance benchmarking on d.o.

hi all, i've been watching the inspiring work to integrate testing patches against HEAD at testing.drupal.org, and wondering if it would be useful/possible/desirable to have benchmarking integrated into d.o. as well? like the testing stuff, but maybe opt-in? i'd be willing to do some dev/sysadmin work, and i'd hope there would be enough dev resources, but we'd need some hardware dedicated to it. thoughts? suggestions? flames? cheers justin