Java, C#, VM Performance and Benchmarks [OT]

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Hasan Aljudy" <hasan.aljudy at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Since we're talking about maintainablility vs performance, and someone 
> just mentioned video games.
>
> I was thinking, maybe a game engine can be a killer D app. It can 
> demonstrate both the high performance and maintainability advantage that D 
> provides.
>
> Game engines are complicated, many game engines use very bad coding 
> practices to gain performance (i.e. sacrifice maintainability in favor for 
> performance).
> Some people try to use Java to overcome the maintainability issue, but in 
> the end they sacrifice performance.
>
> I think D can win over both C++ and Java in this field (and in many 
> fields, actually). What I'm trying to say is, I think a game engine can be 
> a killer app that grabs everybody's attention towards D.

Me too.. ;)

And so is BCS, and on quite a sophisticated one, if I remember correctly.