Silicon Valley D Meetup - January 26, 2017 - "High Performance Tools in D" by Jon Degenhardt

[Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce]

We're live now:

 
https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/ytl/QZmU0_QJnXuKGdftK-0D7QT4QbVn09_YyOMFHXoNDt8=?hl=en_US&authuser=0

Ali

On 01/25/2017 11:53 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> Our long time member and friend Jon Degenhardt has graciously accepted
> to present on very short notice.
>
> He will give a preview of some performance benchmarks that he has been
> running of tools in C, Rust, and Go that overlap with what Jon writes in
> D at eBay. Jon has been observing that D versions are faster in nearly
> all cases, and not by a small margin. In a total surprise, Jon's version
> of ‘cut’ is faster than GNU cut on large files: On a 4.8GB, 7M lines
> test file, GNU cut takes 12.4 sec, while Jon's version takes 4.2 sec.
> (GNU cut is faster on small files.)
>
> The big take-away is that this was achieved without a lot of low-level
> coding, using mostly high level D primitives and the standard library.
> There was some tuning and lessons learned, but nothing extensive.
>
>
> https://www.meetup.com/D-Lang-Silicon-Valley/events/236421472/?eventId=236421472
>
>
> I may post a link to Google Hangouts here at the time of the event (7pm
> Pacific time). Hopefully, the mic will not be muted. (True story! :p)
>
> Ali