Article: Increasing the D Compiler Speed by Over 75%

[deadalnix]

On Wednesday, 31 July 2013 at 22:58:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/31/2013 2:40 PM, Bill Baxter wrote:
>> Are you serious that you can't fathom how it could be 
>> confusing to someone than
>> talking about differences in run times?
>
> Yes.
>
> And no, I'm not talking about confusing to someone who lives in 
> an undiscovered stone age tribe in the Amazon. I'm talking 
> about computer programmers.
>

Considering how many programmer think javascript is near C speed, 
I do believe that most of them effectively do not understand the 
notion of speed.