Thoughts about D

[John]

On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 05:18:42 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 at 04:52:52 UTC, bauss wrote:
>> 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.
>
> For small programs, startup time is fair to consider since the 
> end user still has to deal with that too.
>
> But for larger programs, I suspect it would disappear too.

Not when the startup time is in milliseconds. If it was a large 
program taking minutes to startup, but that's not the case at 
all. A user will barely even be able to tell the difference 
between 50ms.