D vs C++

[Sean Kelly]

Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:

> On 12/28/10 9:30 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
> > Don Wrote:
> >
> >> bearophile wrote:
> >>> Je'rome M. Berger:
> >>>
> >>>> I have almost never used inline assembler even in languages that support it. Of course, this is only a sub-point of your point 6: using inline assembly in a language as slow as Python would be completely pointless.<
> >>>
> >>> For scientific computing this is better than D inline asm:
> >>> http://www.corepy.org/
> >>
> >> Based on a quick look at the website, that looks _extremely_ unlikely to
> >> be true.
> >
> > This seems like an extravagant claim: "CorePy. . . regularly outperforms compiled languages for common computational tasks (as hand-coded assembly often does)."  They are talking about interpreted assembly code, correct?
> 
> It's generated during runtime and then ran straight.

Yeah, I mulled it over and figured out how this works.  For long-running sequences of code I imagine it's quite fast.