Why Java (server VM) is faster than D?

[Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d]

On 03-Aug-2015 20:05, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On 8/3/15 12:59 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>> On 03-Aug-2015 19:54, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>
>>> ALSO, make SURE you are compiling in release mode, so you aren't calling
>>> a virtual invariant function before/after every call.
>>
>> This one is critical. Actually why do we have an extra call for trivial
>> null-check on any object that doesn't even have invariant?
>
> Actually, that the call to the invariant should be avoidable if the
> object doesn't have one. It should be easy to check the vtable pointer
> to see if it points at the "default" invariant (which does nothing).
>
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14865


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Dmitry Olshansky