[Fwd: Re: [go-nuts] Re: Generics false dichotomy]

[Walter Bright]

On 2/16/2014 12:09 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
> Someone with serious knowledge should wade into this campaign of FUD.
> The whole thread is wrong-headed.

I enjoyed this comment:

"The D guys have thrown a lot of time behind making their compiler fast"

It's not exactly true. What has happened is I spent a LOT of time trying to make 
my C/C++ compiler fast. That experience has enabled me to design D so it is 
fundamentally fast to compile, and enabled me to pick an internal design for the 
compiler that I know will be fast.

The actual time I've spent profiling and tuning DMD for speed has been minimal, 
though I've still gotten caught by a few mistakes.

And there's this regression:

https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=12137