DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu
Jonathan M Davis
jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Sun Jun 30 12:51:32 PDT 2013
On Sunday, June 30, 2013 21:05:41 CJS wrote:
> In the talk Andrei seems to mentions that D's associative arrays
> are lacking in performance somehow. I'm very new to D, but it's
> not obvious to me what the shortcoming is. I assume it's that for
> some reason it's hard to specialize associative arrays to specfic
> types to give increased performance in specfic cases, but I'm
> unclear why that would be difficult. Could someone please
> elaborate?
There's one implementation, and you can't swap it out, whereas different use
cases may perform better with different implementations. On top of that, the
current implementation is rather buggy and fragile, but that's an
implementation issue rather than an inherent one.
- Jonathan M Davis
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