Marketing of D - article topic ideas?

["Jérôme M. Berger"]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 06/07/2010 04:35 PM, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> On 06/07/2010 12:57 PM, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote:
>>>>> Do this in any dynamic language ->   FAIL because looping is so
>>>>> slow that you might
>>>>> die of old age before it executes.  Besides, who wants to do
>>>>> computationally
>>>>> intensive, multithreaded work in a dynamic language?
>>>>
>>>>      In python: max (map (max, args)) should have reasonable
>>>> performances and is *much* more elegant...
>>>
>>> I very much doubt that.
>>>
>>     What do you doubt? That it has reasonable performance or that it is
>> more elegant?
> 
> That it has reasonable performance. Then, there are a number of things
> that can't be compared such as figuring out the tightest static types,
> something that Python doesn't worry about (at the expense of precision
> and performance).
> 
	Please define "reasonable performance"...

> I see such examples as simple illustrations "look, if you give up X, you
> gain Y!" - just coming without mentioning X.
> 
	Precisely my point :) If you look at the OP message, what it boils
down to is: "look if you do this the D way in a dynamic language
it'll be dead slow" - just coming without mentioning that the D way
isn't the right way in those languages...

		Jerome
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