Thoughts from newcommer

[thedeemon via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 18 April 2017 at 02:57:59 UTC, prdan wrote:
> I've written multi-threaded regex-redux benchmark for D 
> language and made some tests.

Nice!

> Rust version 1.16 (newest stable)
> GCC ver 4.9.2 (newest debian 8 stable)

Which compiler did you use for D?

> C was the fastest (1.32) but used the most CPU, D was second 
> (1.45) with lowest CPU usage!

In benchmarks where some fixed amount of work should be done as 
fast as possible low CPU usage is not a good sign, it just means 
some cores were idle when they could really be working.