D perfomance

JN 666total at wp.pl
Sun Apr 26 19:30:10 UTC 2020


On Sunday, 26 April 2020 at 16:59:44 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote:
> Unfortunately there is a big issue with techempower. Because it 
> is so
> popular almost every framework [language] try to have a best 
> score in
> it.
> And in many cases this mean they use some hacks or tricks to 
> achieve
> that. So in general techempower results are useless. From my own
> experience D performance is really good in a real word 
> scenarios.
> Other issue with techempower benchmark is there is almost zero
> complexity. All tests do some basic operations on realy small
> datasets.

It's nice to have a moral victory and claim to be above "those 
cheaters", but links to these benchmarks are shared in many 
places. If someone wants to see how fast D is, they will write 
"programming language benchmark" in their websearch of choice, 
and TechEmpower will be high in the results list. He will click, 
and go "oh wow, even PHP is faster than that D stuff".

Whether it's cheating or not, perception matters and people will 
use such benchmarks to base their decision, even if it's 
unreasonable and doesn't apply to real world scenarios.


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