Marketing of D - article topic ideas?

[Yao G.]

  :D Wow. This troll is getting increasingly desperate. Now it resorts to  
straw man.

On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:53:41 -0500, retard <re at tard.com.invalid> wrote:

> 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.


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