D scored well in the Google CodeJam Qualification Round

[bearophile]

Somedude:
> Although there was very few D contestants (only 15 out of 18365
> contestants used D), D scored number 1.

This D solution of the "hall of mirrors" (modified from C++ code) 
is about 3.5 times faster on the large dataset than hos.lyric 
solution. No GC required, stack allocation wins:
http://codepad.org/TZwGLGjV

Bye,
bearophile