D vs C++ - Where are the benchmarks?

[Mehrdad]

On Thursday, 4 July 2013 at 21:03:01 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
> On Thursday, 4 July 2013 at 20:58:57 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
> wrote:
>> On Thursday, July 04, 2013 22:46:12 Mehrdad wrote:
>>> How would you possibly be able to find the roots?
>>
>> By putting all of the same information there that we have in 
>> D. It may be clunkier to do in D and generally more of a pain, 
>> but you have just as much control over memory in C++ as you do 
>> in D.
>> And C++ GCs _do_ exist
>
>
> Er, C++ _compilers_ that support (conservative?) GC's do exist.
>
> But you can't write standard C++ code and expect it to 
> garbage-collect itself, you need external help that's not 
> guaranteed by the standard.
>
> D, on the other hand, has a GC built into the language itself; 
> it's not an implementation detail.


To put it another way, _any_ conformant D compiler must 
necessarily have a GC.

On the other hand, C++ compiler aren't required to, so portable 
code can't assume they will.