Benchmark of D against other languages

[Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d]

On 03/31/2015 08:20 PM, cym13 wrote:
> https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks

We made a massive jump towards the upper ranks.

#4  ¹
https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks/tree/master/brainfuck#user-content-benchmark-benchb
#2
https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks/tree/master/brainfuck#user-content-benchmark-mandelb
#1
https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks/tree/master/base64#user-content-benchmark
#13 ²
https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks/tree/master/json#user-content-benchmark
#2  ³
https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks/tree/master/matmul#user-content-benchmark
#4
https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks/tree/master/havlak#user-content-benchmark

https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks

¹: Nim outperforms anything else on brainfuck by a large margin because
it has the fastest hash table (open addressing, storing values in head).
https://github.com/Araq/Nim/blob/57fa8c6d3f535acc79ef8a67a6ef7aef0c7519da/lib/pure/collections/tables.nim#L73

²: D would probably be #1 with the json pull parser from
http://code.dlang.org/packages/std_data_json.

³: Places 2, 3, and 4 thanks to std.numeric.dotProduct. An optimized
dense matrix multiplication would get us #1.