D versus Objective C Comparison

[Piotrek]

Chris R Miller pisze:

> Primarily that it's difficult (for me) to figure out how to get Tango 
> and DSSS working with it.
> 

If you like Debian/Ubuntu you can try:

http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/Debian

But I also got working dmd on linux many times with manual installation 
(Tango/DWT). Of course I had to change some initial configuration entries.

> The compiler is only part of the story - in your defense, I got the 
> //compiler// working just fine.  It was my aforementioned entourage of 
> libraries that stopped the party.  If I remember correctly the 
> showstopper was DWT.  It was Linux 64, and DWT (at least at that point 
> in time) wasn't yet 64-bit compatible.  So it didn't work.

You can be right about 64-bit environment, I haven't tried it. But as 
long it does the job at the same time or even slower than 32-bit, I 
don't care (see 
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=gpp&lang2=gpp 
and 
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=gpp&lang2=gpp). 
But the works are in progress to have 64-bit in the future.

Cheers
Piotrek