D vs C++

[Sean Kelly]

Don Wrote:

> bearophile wrote:
> > Je'rome M. Berger:
> > 
> >> I have almost never used inline assembler even in languages that support it. Of course, this is only a sub-point of your point 6: using inline assembly in a language as slow as Python would be completely pointless.<
> > 
> > For scientific computing this is better than D inline asm:
> > http://www.corepy.org/
> 
> Based on a quick look at the website, that looks _extremely_ unlikely to 
> be true.

This seems like an extravagant claim: "CorePy. . . regularly outperforms compiled languages for common computational tasks (as hand-coded assembly often does)."  They are talking about interpreted assembly code, correct?