Inherent code performance advantages of D over C?

John Colvin john.loughran.colvin at gmail.com
Mon Dec 9 11:54:58 PST 2013


On Monday, 9 December 2013 at 19:45:34 UTC, Araq wrote:
> That language X is faster than C in "practice" because X is 
> much more developer friendly and thus you can tweak your code 
> much easier etc. is an argument of every language out there.

Not really. It's very hard to beat sensibly written C* in most 
languages. D is one of the few where you have a chance on 
anything other than very specific benchmarks. Others include 
fortran and c++.


*Note: not the impossible, perfect C that no one can actually 
write for more than ~1000 lines. Just good, straightforward, 
normal C code.


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