Help to improve speed

[Jacob Carlborg]

bearophile wrote:
> Jacob Carlborg:
>> I have an application that maps numbers to words from a list of words 
>> written in Ruby. I've ported the application to D and it's terrible slow 
>> and I don't know why.
> 
> Is the purpose of your program as this one, that I have written time ago? It may give you some ideas:
> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=57497
> 
> Note that ruby hashes may be faster than D ones (Python ones are much faster than D ones in all situations).
> 
> Bye,
> bearophile

I think it is, thanks for the link.
It's actually from this article: 
http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/~prechelt/Biblio/jccpprtTR.pdf