Thoughts from newcommer

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

When anyone mentions the Compiler Shootout for the last 10 years, Isaac always 
pops up and says he won't put it on his site. I wish he'd just go away.

On 4/16/2017 12:11 AM, Isaac Gouy wrote:
> On Sunday, 16 April 2017 at 04:19:56 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> came out tops if I weighted time, memory, and source code size equally.  Not
>> always highest, as Free Pascal would sometimes beat it, but D usually won.
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> You juggled the numbers to get a result ;-)
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>> This one doesn't show any benchmarks because it says it's in your game, so you
>> are involved.
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> No it does not say that.
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> It says "This directory contains the Julia version of the "The Computer Language
> Benchmarks Game".
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> It provides "perf.jl" to time those Julia programs.
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> Those Julia programs are not included in the benchmarks game.
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>> I'm guessing that's because he tried to update the old D benchmarking code and
>> likely the C/C++ code has been optimized a lot more since. ...
>> I suspect D would do just as well on the other benchmarks now.
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> What a great opportunity for someone in the D community to help publicize the
> language!