Marketing of D - article topic ideas?

[retard]

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:14:51 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> On 06/08/2010 04:05 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> On 06/08/2010 01:27 PM, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote:
>>>> Please define "reasonable performance"...
>>>
>>> Within 15% of hand-optimized code specialized for the types at hand.
>>
>> I would have said O(n) or O(log n), as opposed to, say, O(n*n).
>>
>> General rules for performance improvements:
>>
>> 1. nobody notices a 10% improvement
>>
>> 2. users will start noticing speedups when they exceed 2x
>>
>> 3. a 10x speedup is a game changer
> 
> max of n elements is O(n).

This probably means that D 2 won't be very efficient on multicore until 
the authors learn some basic parallel programming skills. Now where did 
you get your PhD - I'm collecting a list of toy universities people 
should avoid.