U++ Core vs D programming language

[janderson]

Jason House wrote:
> Poking around the U++ web site, I spotted this page:
> http://www.ultimatepp.org/www$uppweb$vsd$en-us.html
> 
> It says "C++ is still well ahead of D (by 70%) if not being hold back by standard library design and average implementation..."
> 
> Since Walter is very proud of D's strings, I wonder if this'll get any attention.  They use 64 bit gdc for their speed test.  I guess they're using D1 even though they link to a D2 page...

It looks like the implementations are different (more then just by 
language).  Also I wonder how much of the time is spent in the writefln.

-Joel