D vs Go in real life

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Ary Borenszweig <ary at esperanto.org.ar> wrote:
> On 11/21/13 6:36 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 11/21/13 1:16 PM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 21 November 2013 at 16:23:07 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> Fortunately a lot has changed since :o).
>>> 
>>> Please, do tell. ;)
>> 
>> Not much that people don't know already. We have one solid D project
>> installed and a couple of heavy-hitting engineers have started using D
>> for scripts and tools (e.g. replacing Python for a 2x speedup for the
>> same source code size/complexity).
> 
> I would have expected a lot more speedup than just 2x, D being a compiled language.

Amdahl's law.

Andrei