Inlining Ref Functions

[grauzone]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:16 PM, grauzone <none at example.net> wrote:
>>> 1.  Some uber-hardcore performance freaks will not even consider D if it
>>> has the
>>> slightest bit of performance overhead compared to C++.
>> I don't understand why D should pander to C++ freaks? If they think their
>> language is great, they'll just continue programming C++. Nobody cares about
>> them, and they will die a sad, lonely death.
>>
>> Just look how Java/C# are taking over C++. Even if D is slightly less
>> efficient, it won't interfere with D's world domination plans.
>>
>> Rather, one should avoid cloning the more annoying C++ features. (Ah yes, of
>> course D makes them "better". Huh.) That's why we all use D in the first
>> place.
> 
> Performance is one of the major selling points of D.  Why settle for a
> language with sub-standard tools and lack of safety if you don't care
> about performance?  If you don't care about performance you're
> probably better off with one of those languages that runs on the JVM
> or CLR.

If you'd really care about performance, you'd code in ASM. Blurb.

> --bb