At the very least, I couldn't realistically re-run some of the example benchmarks from the source embedded in the HTML, because they did not include vendoring/version information for external packages they depend on. That made me doubt the provenance of https://salsa.debian.org/benchmarksgame-team/benchmarksgame.
It is mostly frontend HTML — the benchmarks game project deliverable is a (now static) website.
> I couldn't realistically re-run some of the example benchmarks from the source embedded in the HTML, because…
People have taken the simplest thing that will work approach: select/copy the program source code from the website, paste into a text editor and save; then build & run adapting the commands shown on every program page.
"Where can I get the program source code? — zip'd program source code"
line 11 ? in the README
> … vendoring/version information for external packages they depend on…
If the programs don't build/run with the latest GA external packages, they will be shown as "Make Error" "Bad Output" "Failed" until someone updates them.
A zipped source code archive inside a Git repository is very surprising (violation of principle of least astonishment). No wonder I couldn’t find the benchmark programs’ source; they aren’t even indexed for code search due to residing in a zip file.
Perhaps they don't read the website text?
> … no contact nor link…
Search works.