D const design rationale

[Kirk McDonald]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Daniel Keep wrote:
>> In a wacky kind of way, one of the reasons I chose Python was *because*
>> it could be easily optimised.  True, it had to be done in a different
>> language, but there was almost no effort required to do so, so I never
>> had to fear hitting a performance ceiling.
> 
> But you did hit a performance ceiling. You had to convert the 
> bottlenecks to C. Wouldn't it be nice not to have to do that? <g>

I rather like to think you can convert those bottlenecks to D. :-)

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