std.d.lexer : voting thread

[David Nadlinger]

On Thursday, 3 October 2013 at 19:47:28 UTC, Brian Schott wrote:
> The most recent set of timings that I have can be found here: 
> https://raw.github.com/Hackerpilot/hackerpilot.github.com/master/experimental/std_lexer/images/times4.png

How exactly were these figures obtained?

Based on the graphs, I'd guess that you measured execution time 
of a complete program (as LDC, which has a slightly higher 
startup overhead in druntime, overtakes GDC for larger inputs).

If that's the case, DMD might be at an unfair advantage for this 
benchmark as it doesn't need to run all the druntime startup code 
– which is not a lot, but still. And indeed, its advantage seems 
to shrink for large inputs, although I don't want to imply that 
this could be the only reason.

David