D for the Win

[Mike via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Sunday, 24 August 2014 at 02:19:18 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Saturday, 23 August 2014 at 16:28:33 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
> wrote:
>> Author posted part 2 http://tomerfiliba.com/blog/dlang-part2/
>
> In reddit thread one of commenters complained about D 
> performance and linked this benchmark : 
> https://github.com/nsf/pnoise
>
> I tried running it and don't see anything inherently wrong that 
> may justify 3x-5x slowdowns compared to clang / gcc versions - 
> however, it does plenty of floating point math I don't know 
> performance implications of. Maybe someone else can have a look 
> what can be a problem?

I believe that was previously discussed here:  
http://forum.dlang.org/post/lo19l7$n2a$1@digitalmars.com.

Mike