True, some ready-made video comparisons would be nice, but the codec is being actively developed as we speak, so they'd be out of date pretty quickly (the bitstream format isn't even frozen yet).

However, the Daala code is open-source, so people are free to generate their own comparisons using whichever codecs they like on whatever video snippets they have.

The Daala code is available via Git (https://git.xiph.org/?p=daala.git;a=summary and https://github.com/xiph/daala/) and there are even some test video sequences one can compare with at https://media.xiph.org/video/derf/.