D vs C++

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/28/10 9:30 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
> 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?

It's generated during runtime and then ran straight.

Andrei