stdio performance in tango, stdlib, and perl

[Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email)]

Walter Bright wrote:
> kris wrote:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
>>> kris wrote:
>> [snip]
>>>> Tango should still come out in front, although I have to say that 
>>>> benchmarks don't really tell very much in general i.e. doesn't mean 
>>>> much of anything important whether tango "wins" this or not (IMO)
>>>
>>>
>>> Why not? 
>>
>> If tango were terribly terribly slow instead, then it would be cause 
>> for concern. If I have some program that needs to run faster I'll find 
>> a way to do just that; another reason why tango.io is fairly modular
> 
> One problem with C++, as I mentioned before, is that the 
> straightforward, out of the box coding techniques don't get you fast 
> code. One of my goals with D is to fix that - the straightforward, 
> untuned code should get you most of the possible speed. I think the wc 
> benchmark shows this off.

You could tell from this and my (almost identical) post that Walter's 
propaganda got me thoroughly brainwashed :o).

Andrei