To begin in D coming from Python

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"bearophile" <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote in message 
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> - CPython is written in C, so C is much better integrated with Python than 
> D.

Uh -- Pyd?

> int[string] aa;
> aa["hello".dup] = 10;
> etc.

I don't know why you're .dupping there.

> Note that in many situations Python dicts are faster or much faster than D 
> associative arrays. So in speed-critical points of your code you may have 
> to invent creative ways to avoid using them, like using arrays of bools to 
> represent the set, using enums, using sorted arrays with a binary search, 
> etc. Often what's slow in D is fast in Python and vice versa (but very 
> often what's fast in D is fast in Psyco too).

Or, you know, use another hash implementation.  Like Tango's HashMap, which 
is consistently faster than the built-in AAs.  Or write your own.