DIP80: phobos additions

[Dennis Ritchie via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 09:43:47 UTC, ixid wrote:
> You rarely need to use BigInt for heavy lifting though, often 
> it's just summing, not that I would argue against optimization. 
> I think speed is absolutely vital and one of the most powerful 
> things we could do to promote D would be to run the best 
> benchmarks site for all language comers and make sure D does 
> very well. Every time there's a benchmark contest it seems to 
> unearth D performance issues that can be greatly improved upon.

Yes it is. Many are trying to find performance problems D. And 
sometimes it turns out.

> I'm sure you will beat me pretty quickly, as I said my maths 
> isn't very good but it might motivate me to solve some more! =)

No, I will start to beat you until next year, because, 
unfortunately, I will not have a full year of access to the 
computer. We can say that this is something like a long vacation 
:)