Ideas for Phobos., u++ STL speed comparison

[Jay Norwood]

On Friday, 16 March 2012 at 14:26:19 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
>> http://www.ultimatepp.org/www$uppweb$vsd$en-us.html
>
> The test uses a specific data structure, an indexed contiguous 
> array. To conclude from here that C++ is faster than D is quite 
> a stretch.
>
> Andrei

In fact the claim is no longer true.  I pulled down their latest 
build and tested with a large Alice (duplicated many times to get 
it up to measureable consistently). I used the library stopwatch 
measurements for each.  The results come out about the same ... 
theirs is a few msec faster on 10MB of input with their 
optimizations for speed turned on. This is on a win7-64 corei7 
box, but compiling for 32 bit with msvc for their code.

this is for upp, 4193 build
G:\upp\out\MyApps\MSC9.Force_Speed.Sse2>alice2
      lines      words      bytes file
     224160    1825140   10050960 alice2.txt
time: 93 ms
skey: zip sval: 60
map size;3482


this is for d 2.058
G:\d\alice2\alice2\alice2\Release>alice2
      lines      words      bytes file
     224160   1825140  10050960 alice2.txt
time: 97 ms
skey: zip sval: 60
dictionary length:3482