Slower than Python

[John Colvin]

On Sunday, 3 March 2013 at 15:09:58 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-03-02 17:48, John Colvin wrote:
>
>> It does.
>>
>> Failing to beat mature, optimised C is not anything to be 
>> ashamed of,
>> but being slower than python would be an abject failure of D 
>> as a
>> compiled, systems programming language.
>
> Then D needs to get faster, or we need to switch to C for some 
> std lib functions. In that case, as Walter said, we have failed.

I agree that anything that makes us faster is good, but I 
wouldn't go so far as to say we've failed if we're not as fast as 
the very fastest.