D vs C++ - Where are the benchmarks?

SomeDude lovelydear at mailmetrash.com
Sun Jun 30 13:53:28 PDT 2013


On Sunday, 30 June 2013 at 20:47:17 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Sunday, 30 June 2013 at 20:37:16 UTC, SomeDude wrote:
>> It seems indeed that the automatic memory management is a 
>> major performance killer
>
> Eh, I'd say it is D's gc implementation specifically that is 
> the biggest worry rather than the concept. I think the .net gc 
> is seriously like 10x faster than D's implementation.

Yes, yes, you're right. However, not allocating at least in 
Phobos is one of the surest way to get near optimal performance, 
not to mention it's always more satisfying when you know that 
your program doesn't monopolize Mb of RAM to do even the simplest 
task.


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