Programming language benchmark

[Don]

bearophile wrote:
> Piotr Szturmaj:
> 
>> I don't know why there's no DMD flavor, though.
> 
> The author of that bench has said:
>> I have not evaluated DMD because I am running the programs on a Linux server I have no control of. The “libc” is quite old and incompatible with the binary release of dmd.<
> 
> 
>> It clearly shows that D is really fast (comparable to C) which I like a lot!
> 
> Only LDC and GDC. DMD is not up to GCC/ICC/LLVM even on integer math benchmarks.

I've never heard that claim before. Do you have evidence for that? If it 
is true, there's a strong possibility that it's a small, fixable issue 
(for example, DMD used to have terrible performance for ulong 
multiplication).