A few notes on choosing between Go and D for a quick project

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 3/20/2015 3:50 AM, "Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= 
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>" wrote:
> High level constructs may be  cleaner if done right, and sometimes saves
> programmer time, but it will never be as fast on the standard CPU architectures
> we have today. The hardware favours carefully planned iterative, imperative
> approaches. That was true before SIMD and caching, and it is even more true now.

It's less true for SIMD. To take advantage of SIMD, compilers have to reverse 
engineer low level loops into a higher level construct, then re-compile for SIMD.