Benchmark of D against other languages

[weaselcat via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 1 April 2015 at 20:31:18 UTC, novice2 wrote:
> I am sorry for so dumb question, but:
> when peoples talking about D and speed,
> then they always say "mark method final".
> Can DMD compiler do it itself, as one of optimizations?

afaik there's no reason the compiler couldn't infer it for 
executables, but I could easily be wrong.