Virtual methods

[Walter Bright]

retard wrote:
> Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:37:56 -0500, bearophile wrote:
> 
>> Later more things can be improved, but I think this is enough to fix
>> most of the situation.
> 
> Interesting. So a novice programmer can produce much faster code in Java 
> than a semi-pro in D in this case. 

Ever since Java implementations supported JITs, there were some 
benchmarks that ran faster in Java than in the best C++ optimizing 
compilers. This is because Java JITs have access to the whole program, 
and native compilers generally do not.