Optimizations and performance

[Dave via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 9 June 2016 at 13:48:36 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Thursday, 9 June 2016 at 12:16:25 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
>> On Thursday, 9 June 2016 at 01:46:45 UTC, Dave wrote:
>>> Languages should be fast by default.
>>
>> This.  4,000,000,000% this.
>>
>> If the naïve cases are bad, they're bad and trying to pretend 
>> that doesn't matter is some insidious denial.  Sure, nearly 
>> any code can be optimised to be some sort of "fast", but 99% 
>> of it never will be.
>
> Performance is not the only thing to worry in a language.

But it is the point of benchmarking