D has now surpassed C++ in overall performance

[John]

janderson Wrote:

> John wrote:
> > D has now surpassed C++ in overall performance at the "Computer Language Shootout" website. This change came about with the upgrade to 1.004 from 1.000 (I'm guessing because of the new GC).   
> > 
> > http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all&calc=Calculate&xfullcpu=1&xmem=1&xloc=0&binarytrees=1&chameneos=1&message=1&fannkuch=1&fasta=1&knucleotide=1&mandelbrot=1&meteor=0&nbody=1&nsieve=1&nsievebits=1&partialsums=1&pidigits=1&recursive=1&regexdna=1&revcomp=1&spectralnorm=1&hello=0&sumcol=1
> 
> 
> Only if you take memory into account.  CPU performance is still not up 
> to par.
> 
> The recursive and the mandelbrot are the biggest performance eaters. 
> Recursive is the same as gcc so it must be a compiler thing I guess.
> 
> -Joel

Yeah, I would really like to see GDC added but they said it would be "too difficult" to install.