How fast is D compared to C++?

[Jason E. Aten]

> What pisses me off is the Issac Guy doesn't want to support D in the great
> language benchmark. It's very important utlity for developers. Most coders
> with C and C++ mentality look the charts and only use the top-2 languages,
> that is C and C++. If D was there, we could get more users right now,
> because the optimization benefits make DMD the fastest. Probably even
> hundreds of enterprises go there to see what language to use. Everyone knows
> TIOBE is a joke, but this benchmark is probably the most important language
> benchmark in the web. D is not listed :-(
>
> I've been donating few hundred bucks annually to wikipedia, but the
> deletionist news force me to rethink this. I could donate them to Issac if
> he just supported our language. Must not be that hard?
>

The benchmarks are public so they can be reproduced, right?  That's the
standard for scientific publication. I can help you reproduce them and put
up a webpage if you want to.  But I would suggest that it's only really
relevant to benchmark against C and C++.  The rest is just eye candy.

- Jason
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