Is D slow?

[Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 06/09/2017 03:46 PM, Honey wrote:
 > On Friday, 9 June 2017 at 20:27:58 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
 >> On 06/09/2017 12:29 PM, Honey wrote:
 >>
 >> > I think, I should not rely on standard library facilities.
 >>
 >> I think you hit a Phobos function with particularly bad performance
 >> (which can be improved). Phobos is not a slow library in general.
 >
 > What I meant to say is: the comparison would have been less biased if I
 > had written the complete algorithm without relying on different standard
 > library abstractions (iterators vs. ranges).

You would get the exact performance if you implemented e.g. with 
pointers. Your test has been very valuable for exposing an embarrassing 
performance issue. :)

Ali