[More Info] Increasing speed of D applications to Intel C compiled applicaitons' standards

[Sean Kelly]

%u wrote:
> "Do you have any observations about what shorts of things put you
> in the 20% category?"
> 
> - Luckly the code requiring sheer processing power like math
> functions(trigs, logs...), b-tree creation, compression, D code
> runs only 5-6% slower (an averaged mean) compared to Intel C
> compiler.
> - Unfortunately, processes requiring sheer memory access like
> memcopy, mem alloc, de-alloc, stream copy is nearly almost 15->20%
> slower at D. (note that, code is totally identical).

Some of this may be related to DMC's C library implementation vs. 
Intel's.  Could you try the app using DMC and compare it to DMD?


Sean