Things I Learned from ACCU 2010

[Leandro Lucarella]

Walter Bright, el 23 de abril a las 06:30 me escribiste:
> Clemens wrote:
> >Ah, ok. As bearophile noted, that person seems to have not much experience
> >with Haskell, to put it politely. Obviously I didn't see the presentation and
> >don't want to judge too harshly, but if your summary is an accurate
> >representation of its take-away points, that reeks badly of intellectual
> >dishonesty and FUD. See my link.
> >
> >Or put another way, would you like someone who has never used D before to do
> >a live presentation on it and come to premature conclusions like this?
> 
> 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.

Is very easy to make naive programs that have serious performance problems
because of the GC. You have to be almost an expert to tune that programs
to make the run fast. Ask bearophile and dschima for examples =)

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