D const design rationale

[Dave]

Kirk McDonald wrote:
> 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. :-)
> 

I'd rather just do it all in D and leave Python and C on the shelf <g>