Slower than Python

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/3/13 9:31 PM, deadalnix wrote:
> On Sunday, 3 March 2013 at 20:18:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 3/3/2013 7:09 AM, 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.
>>
>> Nothing in this thread suggests that D needs to switch its library
>> implementations to C.
>>
>> Interestingly, I tried the indexOf() benchmark using C's memchr() and
>> memcmp() from VC's runtime library. It was not faster than Andrei's
>> optimized D one.
>
> Maybe it is time to look at the python implementation and see why it is
> faster.

Was the conclusion that it's faster?

Andrei