Flame bait: D vs. Rust vs. Go Benchmarking
John Colvin
john.loughran.colvin at gmail.com
Wed Jul 24 04:27:16 PDT 2013
On Wednesday, 24 July 2013 at 07:20:16 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
> This comment is worrying:
>
> "Can you try D version without std.random, and use srand and
> rand from std.c.stdlib? I think it should be almost same speed
> as C version ;-)"
>
> "Wow! Just tried that, and this brings the running time of the
> DMD-compiled version to 0.770s from 1.290, the GDC-compiled
> version from 1.060 to 0.680s, and the LDC version to 0.580s
> from 0.710s. Meaning the LDC version is on par with the
> Clang-compiled C version and just slightly beats the
> GCC-compiled C one! There really should be a warning note in
> the std.random library documentation that for
> performance-critical code the C stdlib random generator is a
> better choice."
>
>
> Is this just because RNGs are value types? It's literally
> causing bad press for D, so this needs to be high on the
> priority list.
The c stdlib random number generation isn't very random.
There should be a note in std.random docs warning that it's
slower but better than the c stdlib version.
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