Sharing in D

superdan super at dan.org
Thu Jul 31 17:52:28 PDT 2008


Sean Kelly Wrote:

> All that said, I believe it's entirely possible to write performance-critical code in D so long as the
> programmer is careful about memory allocation.  And as Walter has said before, because even
> malloc is not time-constrained the same goes for any use of dynamic memory--GCs just magnify
> the issue.  Server apps in Tango, for example, don't allocate any memory at all once initialization
> is complete.  This is why they tend to be so blisteringly fast.  It's also why Tango is designed the
> way it is--not always super-convenient for run of the mill apps programming, but quite scalable
> for high-end work.  By contrast, I'd argue that Phobos is the opposite.

i agree. std.algorithm i sleep with under my pillow. but std.xml. what a sick piece of shit that is. if they tried to make it slow on purpose they couldn't have succeeded better. std.xml must go.



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