Final by default?

[bearophile]

Andrei Alexandrescu:

> I literally can't say anything more on the subject than I've 
> already had. I've said it all. I could, of course, reiterate my 
> considerations, and that would have other people reiterate 
> theirs and their opinion on how my pros don't hold that much 
> weight and how my cons hold a lot more weight than they should.

But was the decision taken on the basic of experimental data? I 
mean the kind of data Daniel Murphy has shown here:

http://forum.dlang.org/thread/lfqoan$5qq$1@digitalmars.com?page=27#post-lg147n:242u14:241:40digitalmars.com

Bye,
bearophile