D vs C++ - Where are the benchmarks?

Kapps opantm2+spam at gmail.com
Sun Jun 30 18:07:23 PDT 2013


On Sunday, 30 June 2013 at 21:06:37 UTC, Gabi wrote:
> On Sunday, 30 June 2013 at 20:26:38 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> On Sunday, 30 June 2013 at 20:05:16 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>>> On Sunday, 30 June 2013 at 19:48:45 UTC, Gabi wrote:
>>>> Are there any good comparisons out there ?
>>> Not that I know of, but then I'm not looking to justify the 
>>> use of D anymore. ;)
>> When I just googled for "d programming language benchmark," 
>> this post was two clicks from the first page of search results:
>>
>> http://attractivechaos.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/my-programming-language-benchmark-analyses/
>
> Thanks for that. Unfortunately it doesn't contain dmd 
> benchmarks which I most interested in because our main platform 
> is windows.

If you're concerned about performance, I'd recommend against 
using DMD for your release builds. GDC and LDC will give much 
better performance, and GDC works perfectly fine on Windows. LDC 
has some problems with exception handling AFAIK on Windows.


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