Programming language shootout

[Robert Fraser]

Daniel White Wrote:

> The other issue is that in most cases, it's a little slower than C/C++. Again, is this something that can be eventually fixed?

Someone posted on this issue some time back, saying that GDC gave D a considerable boost (over C/C++) on some of the shootout programs.

Generally, however, the main reason D ends up slower is that the optimizer in DMD still has a lot of work needed.