Channel 9 interview with Scott Meyers, Herb Sutter, and yours truly

Timon Gehr timon.gehr at gmx.ch
Wed Aug 24 19:46:37 PDT 2011


On 08/25/2011 04:13 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> Cool interview. The D discussion was looooooong, I was expecting a
> 2-minute talk about D and then moving onto C++ business. Pretty cool!
>
> Now if we could have an easy way to enforce the GC out of compilation
> via some compile-time switch we could forever get rid of that GC
> equals slow application argument. I find that "D is 90% of C++'s speed
> and that's it" comment to be silly. I'm paraphrasing there, I can't
> recall the exact words, but it was something to that effect.
>

Once the D GC is replaced by a sufficiently sophisticated one, I believe 
D with GC could quite easily beat C++ in benchmarks.

 > Anyway, interesting times ahead with D and C++. Did they do any work
 > at all regarding the ABI for C++11? Like define it properly for
 > interoperability with other languages?


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