Small part of a program : d and c versions performances diff.

[bearophile via Digitalmars-d-learn]

Larry:

> Of course when run on very high end machines, this diff is 
> almost non existent but we want to run on very low powered 
> hardware.
>
> Ok, even with a longer code, there will always be a launch 
> penalty for d. So I cannot use it for very high performance 
> loops.

If you run it on very low powered hardware then you may not need 
the GC. So if you disable the run-time (stubbing out the GC) the 
start-up time of the D code will be smaller.

I think people here like you are really too quick at dismissing D 
:-)

Bye,
bearophile