D benchmark code review

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad" <ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>]

On Sunday, 15 December 2013 at 12:29:46 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
Wakeling wrote:
> Again, better I think to create first-class iOS support in D 
> itself.  The alternative you suggest really feels like sticking 
> one's feet in the flames to get out of having to do a firewalk 
> ... :-)

Yes,  I thought that too for a while, in general, but then it 
turns out that C++ has kind of become a "portable source-level 
object format" which most new platforms are claiming support for. 
And new platforms keep coming in areas where you least expect 
them to. Like Chrome PNaCl for the web. So, it is a moving 
target. Not being able to generate C/C++ if you later decide to 
port is a lock-in unless the runtime is so minimal and simple 
that you can make do with generic LLVM IR…

> If that's the use-case you're looking for, fair enough.  What I 
> was concerned with was whether you were overlooking other 
> use-cases that might potentially benefit you, because while 
> looking at D through the prism of "C++ replacement" is valid, 
> it misses a whole load of other things one can do with the 
> language.

I am looking for a language that let me do experimental realtime 
audio. C++ is not a good fit because of the "experimental" part 
suggest a clean language where you can quickly change the code. 
C++ is a bit verbose/tedious to be a good fit. There is nothing 
in D that prevents it from providing very clean low level 
support, but I sense that this is not the direction the language 
is going. I could be wrong though, maybe I'll give it a spin 
after new year. :)

O.