Slow performance compared to C++, ideas?

[deadalnix]

On Monday, 3 June 2013 at 15:27:58 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> This is actually part of the point. You keep on discussing as 
> if we design the language now, when in fact there's a lot of 
> code out there that relies on the current behavior. We won't 
> win many friends if we break every single method that has ever 
> been overridden in D, over a trivial matter.
>

Agreed. But can you please consider the export proposal ? This 
would allow for finalization using LTO. That we can avoid virtual 
dispatch when it is unneeded.