Benchmark of D against other languages

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On Wednesday, 1 April 2015 at 22:30:55 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
> On Wednesday, 1 April 2015 at 22:15:42 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
>> On 04/01/2015 10:31 PM, novice2 wrote:
>>> Can DMD compiler do it itself, as one of optimizations?
>>
>> You could do it as part of LTO or whole program optimization.
>> It requires another compiler/linker phase, so it's not easy to 
>> achieve,
>> maybe the LDC/GDC people have LTO running?
>>
>> GCC5 comes with a big announcement about devirtualization.
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc-5/changes.html#general
>
> Do you know if LLVM is getting anything similar?

Yes, there is active dev in LLVM to achieve the same kind of 
results.