Language Shootout

[janderson]

Dave wrote:
> Dan Wrote:
> 
>> 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?
>>
> 
> Huh? D is a tad better on one machine and just a bit slower on the other machine (on the Shootout). Maybe there was some sort of problem on the site when you looked at it?
> 
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=fasta&lang=all
> 
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/debian/benchmark.php?test=fasta&lang=all
> 

There's something radically different about those 2 benchmarks.  I know 
Intel can be slow but 14times slower.  Either the algorithm is 
different, the input data is different, the machine configuration is 
massively different or AMD kicks ass for this algorithm.

-Joel