What remains to be done for D2?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Petr Janda" <janda.petr at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Also, how much slower is D2 compared to C++? Will D2 final have
> comparable performance?
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D2 already has comparable performance to C++. And various things like 
built-in slices and good metaprogramming make it easier to write fast code:

http://dotnot.org/blog/archives/2008/03/10/xml-benchmarks-parsequerymutateserialize/
http://dotnot.org/blog/archives/2008/03/10/xml-benchmarks-updated-graphs-with-rapidxml/
http://dotnot.org/blog/archives/2008/03/12/why-is-dtango-so-fast-at-parsing-xml/

http://www.semitwist.com/articles/EfficientAndFlexible/SinglePage/