Help to improve speed

[Jacob Carlborg]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> 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. With a file of around 60 000 words and a 
>> file with around 25 000 numbers the Ruby application takes around 3 
>> seconds and my D port takes around 209 seconds to finish. It's 
>> probably not well coded, I just tried to port it but over 200 seconds 
>> longer doesn't feel right.
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> Perhaps the D profiler can help:
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>   http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/trace.html
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> Also, using the D coverage analyzer can help:
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> http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Coverage-Analysis.html&Itemid=29 
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Of course I should have mentioned that I use gdc osx so that switches 
won't work.