Here's some stuff that may be useful for your papers n stuph:
* Analyze has a pass "-instcount" written by Dinakar, which will tell you
things like the number of functions, basic blocks, and instructions are
in a program. It will even classify the instructions into different
opcodes, if you want to report things like #loads+#stores or something.
* Most of the olden benchmarks can be run with multiple input sizes. This
is important because lli is, well, pretty dang slow. For example, you
can run perimeter in a reasonable amount of time like this:
lli Olden-perimeter.llvm.bc 5
-Chris