D vs. C#

[Walter Bright]

0ffh wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> It sounds like they discovered that fast hardware (a fast desktop 
>> machine) runs faster than slow hardware (small embedded system)! But 
>> it doesn't sound like on the same machine they showed that software 
>> ran faster than hardware.
> 
> It sounds like they discovered, that for any resonable amount of money to
> spend on hardware, they'd be better of with cheap, fast, but "wrong" off-
> the-shelf hardware and software emulation than with some expensive custom
> made piece of metal that runs their stuff natively.

That's often true for embedded systems.