Slower than Python

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-03-01 23:01, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> I doubt that.
>
> 1. Microbenchmarks are a crapshoot, they exercise a tiny portion of the
> language and library.

If that tiny portion is what's only used, then the rest doesn't matter.

> 2. With Python, after comparing 2-3 idioms - well, this is pretty much
> it. We doubled the speed in no time by just tuning options. D being a
> systems language allows you take your code to a million places if you
> want to optimize.

Perhaps we should look over the default configuration.

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/Jacob Carlborg