How fast is D compared to C++?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/2/11 5:41 PM, Jason E. Aten wrote:
>
>     What pisses me off is the Issac Guy doesn't want to support D in the
>     great language benchmark. It's very important utlity for developers.
>     Most coders with C and C++ mentality look the charts and only use
>     the top-2 languages, that is C and C++. If D was there, we could get
>     more users right now, because the optimization benefits make DMD the
>     fastest. Probably even hundreds of enterprises go there to see what
>     language to use. Everyone knows TIOBE is a joke, but this benchmark
>     is probably the most important language benchmark in the web. D is
>     not listed :-(
>
>     I've been donating few hundred bucks annually to wikipedia, but the
>     deletionist news force me to rethink this. I could donate them to
>     Issac if he just supported our language. Must not be that hard?
>
>
> The benchmarks are public so they can be reproduced, right?  That's the
> standard for scientific publication. I can help you reproduce them and
> put up a webpage if you want to.  But I would suggest that it's only
> really relevant to benchmark against C and C++.  The rest is just eye candy.
>
> - Jason
>

I heartily encourage you two to go for this. This has been discussed in 
the past and my understanding is that Isaac has nothing against D but 
can't be bothered with a 32-bit setup. Perhaps now with the 64-bit 
edition maturing, we can look forward to seeing dmd reincluded. Of 
course, if the benchmarks are already set up properly and working, he'll 
be much easier compelled.

Let me know if you need webspace, I'll be glad to help on 
d-programming-language.org and/or erdani.com.


Andrei