Maxime's micro allocation benchmark much faster ?

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 1 April 2015 at 14:22:57 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> On Wednesday, 1 April 2015 at 10:35:05 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 1 April 2015 at 10:09:12 UTC, FG wrote:
>>> On 2015-03-31 at 22:56, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>>>> 1mm allocations
>>>> 2.066: 0.844s
>>>> 2.067: 0.19s
>>>
>>> That is great news, thanks!
>>>
>>> OT: it's a nasty financier's habit to write 1M and 1MM 
>>> instead of 1k and 1M.  :P
>>
>> Yeah, what's with that? I've never seen it before.
>
> One cannot entirely escape déformation professionnelle ;)  
> [People mostly write 1,000 but 1mm although 1m is pedantically 
> correct for 1,000).  Better internalize the conventions if one 
> doesn't want to avoid expensive mistakes under pressure.

well yes, who doesn't always not want to never avoid mistakes? ;)

Anyway, as I'm sure you know, the rest of the world assumes 
SI/metric, or binary in special cases (damn those JEDEC guys!): 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Bit_and_byte_prefixes