Benchmark of D against other languages

[Ary Borenszweig via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/2/15 11:20 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> On Tuesday, 31 March 2015 at 18:20:05 UTC, cym13 wrote:
>> I found this repository (reddit!) that hosts common benchmarks for
>> many languages such as D, Nim, Go, python, C, etc... It uses only
>> standard structures not to influence the benchmark.
>>
>> https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks
>
> Thanks for this.
>
> BTW, some of these benchmarks were taken from attractivechaos here.  He
> seems to be working in bioinformatics and does not consider himself a
> programmer by profession.  But has written some libraries others use,
> and is clearly bright and thoughtful. He is pro-D and sad people have
> not recognized its qualities.
>
> https://attractivechaos.wordpress.com/

He contributed some samples and pull requests to the Crystal repository 
and he's always very humble and does good observations and suggestions. 
I don't recall seeing him say anything bad about any language: just some 
benchmarks and how they behave, let the benchmarks (and code) speak for 
him :-)