Language Shootout

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> Hi guys,
>
> This idea will only work with Walter in on it.  : p  I was thinking that 
> we might go through the various benchmarks in "the language shootout" and 
> find out those items where D is significantly behind for any reason, and 
> correct the performance.
>
> For example, against Eiffel, you see their Fasta implementation is 38 
> times faster than D's.  Why not compile the code, find out how it works 
> and see why D's that much slower - and then Walter can fix the code?
>
> Likewise for GCC's k-nucleotide, G++'s meteor-contest and k-nucleotide, 
> Clean's sum-file, Erlang's cheap-concurrency etc.
>
> We may find that there's a good reason D is slower, but we may find 
> there's a performance bug or enhancement that would significantly improve 
> D?
>
> Just an idea

I think you could make a start without Walter.
If anything interesting surfaces Walter will probably 'correct' it or at 
least tell us why we are wrong :)
maybe just start here:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/code_coverage.html