Quora: Why hasn't D started to replace C++?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 09:26:30PM +0000, Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 21:02:13 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 03:45:44PM -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu via
> > Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > > https://www.quora.com/Why-hasnt-D-started-to-replace-C++
> > [...]
> > 
> > I actually agree with all of his points, except one: C++'s "enormous
> > performance advantage"?!  Is he being serious?  Or is his view
> > biased by dmd's, erm, shall we say, "suboptimal" optimizer?
> 
> Well, I understand what you mean, but there are more performance
> related options for C++ than for any other language at the moment. I
> don't use them, most people don't, but they exist. So for people that
> care a lot about throughput there basically is no other "complete"
> alternative...

Specific examples, please. What are some examples of these "performance
related options"?


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