OSNews thread here degenerates into GC vs not

[Mike Capp]

Don Clugston wrote:

> > Is floating point performance in D a problem?
> It is slow, but the issue is the optimiser in DMD (and also DMC) does
> very little optimisation of FP code. So at present it's necessary to
> code inner loops in asm.

I don't see why this need be an issue. For the kind of functionality you're
talking about it's probably easier to write the math library in C or Fortran and
link it in. It's not as if you need D's advanced features to multiply a bunch of
floats.