D vs C++ - Where are the benchmarks?

[John Colvin]

On Monday, 1 July 2013 at 14:11:50 UTC, David wrote:
>> My 4 gig machine needs swap space... just to surf on internet.
>> 
>> I think one of the biggest culprits are not the programs, but 
>> today's
>> *shiny* and *exciting* websites...
>
> Wow!
> Then you must be running Windows...
>
> I have currently 1.5Gb used, with ~30 tabs open, Kdevelop, a few
> terminals and Thunderbird (and thunderbird takes the most ram!)

Firefox with ~70 tabs including an hour long youtube video, 
matlab and ipython all running at once: Used memory + swap still 
under 4GB.

It's worth bearing in mind that just because you've got swap 
space being used, doesn't mean you're actually short on memory.