Marketing of D - article topic ideas?

[Walter Bright]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 06/08/2010 01:27 PM, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote:
>>     Please define "reasonable performance"...
> 
> Within 15% of hand-optimized code specialized for the types at hand.

I would have said O(n) or O(log n), as opposed to, say, O(n*n).

General rules for performance improvements:

1. nobody notices a 10% improvement

2. users will start noticing speedups when they exceed 2x

3. a 10x speedup is a game changer