Things I Learned from ACCU 2010

[Michael Rynn]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:30:13 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:

> 
> D is meant to give good results even for people who are not experts at
> it. If someone wrote a straightforward D app and it gave such poor
> results, I'd take it (and have taken such) as a problem that D needs to
> improve upon.
> 
> For example, Andrei has expended a great deal of effort on making the
> naive use of stdio also the fast way.
> 
> I will send your link to Russel, I'm sure he'd be interested.
> 
> I am also interested in *why* Russel's Pi program is a bad example of
> Haskell programming, it's not enough to dismiss it because Russel is not
> a Haskell expert.

OK where's the naive version of the D Pi program that scales up with 
1,2,4 cores? How far off are we? Is the concurrency module working with 
it yet?

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Michael Rynn