Marketing of D - article topic ideas?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 06/08/2010 01:27 PM, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 06/07/2010 04:35 PM, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote:
>>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> On 06/07/2010 12:57 PM, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote:
>>>>>> Do this in any dynamic language ->    FAIL because looping is so
>>>>>> slow that you might
>>>>>> die of old age before it executes.  Besides, who wants to do
>>>>>> computationally
>>>>>> intensive, multithreaded work in a dynamic language?
>>>>>
>>>>>       In python: max (map (max, args)) should have reasonable
>>>>> performances and is *much* more elegant...
>>>>
>>>> I very much doubt that.
>>>>
>>>      What do you doubt? That it has reasonable performance or that it is
>>> more elegant?
>>
>> That it has reasonable performance. Then, there are a number of things
>> that can't be compared such as figuring out the tightest static types,
>> something that Python doesn't worry about (at the expense of precision
>> and performance).
>>
> 	Please define "reasonable performance"...

Within 15% of hand-optimized code specialized for the types at hand.

Andrei