Slow performance compared to C++, ideas?

[bearophile]

Manu:

> Yeah, I've actually noticed this too on a few occasions. It 
> would be nice
> if array operations would unroll for short arrays. Particularly 
> so for static arrays!

Thanks to Kenji the latest dmd 2.063 solves part of this problem:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2356

Maybe this improvement is not yet in LDC/GDC.

But avoiding heap allocations for array literals is a change that 
needs to be discussed.

Bye,
bearophile