Thoughts from newcommer

Joakim via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Apr 12 20:29:26 PDT 2017


On Wednesday, 12 April 2017 at 19:37:06 UTC, qznc wrote:
> On Wednesday, 12 April 2017 at 19:31:06 UTC, thedeemon wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 11 April 2017 at 19:57:19 UTC, Piotr Kowalski 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/
>>>
>>> Why D is not there?
>>
>> Because maintainer of that site doesn't want D there, as I 
>> remember from previous discussions. At some point (years ago) 
>> D was present there, then removed. C and C++ programs are 
>> trivially translatable to D and compiled with the same LLVM 
>> backend with LDC, so whatever speed is shown by C and C++ 
>> there can usually be repeated in D.
>
> No. Isaac is very cooperative. He usually pops up quickly, if 
> someone mentions benchmarksgame.
>
> https://forum.dlang.org/post/wcownwoteiownrtnilow@forum.dlang.org
> https://forum.dlang.org/post/rrfbuokpyhjsusuxqxka@forum.dlang.org
> https://forum.dlang.org/post/iskkpwaaaqlcgjymhjzi@forum.dlang.org

Cooperative with what?  He chose not to include D anymore, which 
at one point dominated the shootout, and says we should just 
start our own site:

https://forum.dlang.org/post/no8klt$1d1i$1@digitalmars.com


More information about the Digitalmars-d mailing list