Atila Neves: "C IS NOT MAGICALLY FAST, PART 2"

[Sönke Ludwig via Digitalmars-d]

Am 19.07.2016 um 12:07 schrieb Atila Neves:
> On Tuesday, 19 July 2016 at 02:54:37 UTC, Saurabh Das wrote:
>>
>> Posted on Atila's blog yesterday:
>>
>> https://atilanevesoncode.wordpress.com/2016/07/18/c-is-not-magically-fast-part-2/
>>
>
> So, about D vs C++ there... last night for reasons I forget I tried
> replacing std::string with const char* in the C++ version, and then it
> got faster than D. I don't know why.
>
> At first I thought std::string was being copied instead of being moved,
> but some static_asserts made me doubt that. Either way, there's no good
> reason I can think of for C++ to magically speed up for const char*. Hmm :(
>
> Atila

One thing that the D version does and the others don't is comparing UTF 
code points instead of bytes.