Why Strings as Classes?

[Tomas Lindquist Olsen]

bearophile wrote:
> Walter Bright:
>>> We've already observed that D assoc arrays are less performant than even 
>>> Python maps, so the extra cost of lookup operations is unwelcome.
>> Every one of those benchmarks that purported to show that D AA's were 
>> relatively slow turned out to be, on closer examination, D running the 
>> garbage collector more often than Python does. It had NOTHING to do with 
>> the AA's.
> 
> Really? I must have missed those conclusions then, despite reading all the posts on the subject. What solutions do you propose for the problem then? I recall that disabling the GC didn't improve the situation much. So the problem now becomes how to improve the D GC? 
> 
> In my site I am keeping a gallery of tiny benchmarks where D code (with DMD) is 10 or more times slower than very equivalent Python, C, Java code (I have about 12 programs so far, very different from each other. There's a benchmark regarding the associative arrays too). Hopefully it will become useful once people will start tuning D implementations.
> 
> Bye,
> bearophile

Might I ask where that site is?
I'd like to compare them against LLVMDC if possible

Tomas