Thoughts about D

[bauss]

On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 02:26:34 UTC, Neia Neutuladh 
wrote:
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> You might try reading my first post.
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> Java: 140ms to print "Hello world"
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> D: 50ms to turn a 400kb subtex document into an epub
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You're not measuring what you think for the Java program. Did you 
calculate the runtime and JIT initialization time and subtracted 
that from the actual execution time? Otherwise your benchmark 
isn't sufficient.