Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 10 June 2016 at 09:35:32 UTC, Chris wrote:
> And also, always use ldc or gdc, once your project is ready to 
> go. dmd generated code is slow as it is only a reference 
> compiler.

but not *dog* *slow*. ;-) if one don't really need to squeeze 
every possible cycle out of CPU, DMD-generated code is more than 
acceptable. i, for example, managed to make my scripting language 
almost as efficient with DMD -O as Lua with gcc -O3. ;-)