D vs Java

[Lucas Goss]

Anders F Björklund wrote:
> 31b     hello.sh (script)
> Hello, World!
>         0.01 real         0.00 user         0.00 sys
> ...

Hmm, sounds like fun. Same tests for bourne shell, C, C++, and D (GDC) 
on linux x86 (ubuntu dapper)

code    size     real    user    sys
sh      31b      0.016   0.010   0.006
                  0.017   0.007   0.009
                  0.018   0.011   0.006

C       6.8K     0.003   0.002   0.000
                  0.003   0.000   0.002
                  0.003   0.000   0.002

C++     8.3K     0.127   0.005   0.001
                  0.007   0.003   0.003
                  0.006   0.001   0.004

GDC   426.5K     0.014   0.002   0.002
                  0.004   0.001   0.002
                  0.005   0.002   0.003

I kinda wonder how dmd does? I would have tried it but it links to 
libstdc++.so.5, currently I have libstdc++.so.6 and didn't feel like 
installing the old libstdc++ on this machine (I have others with older 
versions that run dmd).