Slow performance compared to C++, ideas?

[Manu]

On 7 June 2013 05:37, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> On 6/6/2013 12:31 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
>> I think class hierarchy analysis is very doable for whole D projects. You
>> just
>> pass the tool all files in the project and it does its thing.
>>
>> http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~**palsberg/tba/papers/dean-**
>> grove-chambers-ecoop95.pdf<http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~palsberg/tba/papers/dean-grove-chambers-ecoop95.pdf>
>>
>> This would actually be a great GSoC-style project, distributable via
>> tools/.
>>
>
> The trouble, as has been pointed out before, is shared libraries.
>

And the existence of 'sufficiently smart linker', and the fact that the
platforms that suffer from this stuff way harder than x86 almost always
have less mature compilers/optimisers/linkers.
I just wouldn't ever place my faith in the future arrival of some
sufficiently-smart-[tool]. You couldn't make a business investment on that
illusive possibility.
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