D vs C++ - Where are the benchmarks?

[Mehrdad]

On Monday, 1 July 2013 at 02:53:24 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Monday, July 01, 2013 04:37:43 Mehrdad wrote:
>> On Sunday, 30 June 2013 at 20:49:28 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
>> > sometimes faster
>> 
>> Would love an example that demonstrates it!
>
> Anything involving taking a lot of substrings is likely to be 
> faster in D thanks to slices


That doesn't mean D is "faster". It just means it's less painful 
to get the same performance.


Regarding what someone else mentioned, I wasn't talking about the 
backend either.

As an example of what I was looking for, consider that people 
claim a GC can be faster than manual memory management. If that's 
the scenario we're talking about, then what I was asking for is 
to see piece of _code_ (not a hand-wavy explanation!) that 
demonstrates GC-based code being faster than non-GC-based code.

If it's a different feature (I don't know what), then I'd like to 
know what it is strictly in terms of performance.


In other words, I know C++ is _painful_ to write fast code in, 
but that doesn't make it slower; it just makes it more painful. 
On the other hand, if you could demonstrate that e.g. the GC is 
faster than manual memory management, then I'd totally agree D is 
faster than C++.