Why I chose D over Ada and Eiffel

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 8/25/13 3:00 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/21/2013 9:50 AM, Ramon wrote:
>> I am *not* against keeping an eye on performance, by no means. Looking at
>> Moore's law, however, and at the kind of computing power available
>> nowadays even
>> in smartphones, not to talk about 8 and 12 core PCs, I feel that the
>> importance
>> of performance is way overestimated (possibly following a formertimes
>> justified
>> tradition).
>
> While a 5% performance boost is not relevant for consumer apps, it can
> make an enormous difference for server side apps. For example, if you've
> got a $100m server farm, 5% means you save $5m, and server farms can be
> much, much bigger than that.

More than server acquisition costs, it's the electricity.

Andrei