D vs. C#

[Dave]

"Bruce Adams" <tortoise_74 at yeah.who.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:ffph3r$6ji$1 at digitalmars.com...
> bearophile Wrote:
>
>> I like D better. But C# has some advantages too, two things I have 
>> personally seen (beside the IDE, the STD lib, the more widespread usage, 
>> the standard GUI toolkit, etc):
>>
>> - Using strings as keys the unordered Associative Arrays of C# (on dotnet 
>> 3.0) are up to many times faster than D AAs, expecially when the memory 
>> used by the AA becomes large (like 50 MB).
>> - C# VM is able to parallelize code by itself, so if you have two CPU 
>> cores even small proggies with loops can end being quite faster (up to 
>> almost two times faster, in some tests I have done), and you don't need 
>> to change your sourcecode to do that (in C++ you can use OpenMP but you 
>> have to modify the code and you have to be careful, to avoid breaking 
>> your code in many interesting ways).
>> - The VM allows you to use different languages, like IronPython, F#, etc, 
>> sometimes you can even mix them to write your languages.
>>
>> (Note: the shootout used Mono, not dotnet, that is probably much faster).
>>
>> Bye,
>> bearophile
>
> Can you post a link? As far as I can see from my random googling M$ have a 
> library based solution. The VM is doing nothing special. Take
> for example:
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/10/Futures/default.aspx
>
> Basically they seem have a few of useful primatives (at the library level) 
> like parallel.for and "delegate" which is more akin to unix fork() but at 
> the thread level than to D delegates. Another useful abstraction is a 
> scheduler though this "dispatcher" seems limited to use in UIs. Another 
> couple of useful abstractions are futures and replicatible classes.
>

I searched the MS site for a beta of the .NET runtime as well with no luck. 
I'd like to see a link also.

> Regards,
>
> Bruce.