Slow performance compared to C++, ideas?
deadalnix
deadalnix at gmail.com
Thu Jun 6 10:50:11 PDT 2013
On Thursday, 6 June 2013 at 15:06:38 UTC, Kapps wrote:
> On Thursday, 6 June 2013 at 01:08:36 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>> This is why I wrote that this may have been true in the past.
>> Nevertheless, it is completely false today.
>
> C# often does not inline virtual methods, and even if it can
> inline them there's still an overhead. This (2008) article goes
> into depth about how it handles it:
> www.codeproject.com/Articles/25801/JIT-Optimizations -
> Essentially uses frequency analysis to determine if the virtual
> method call is still going to call the same method as it would
> previously. Regardless, we can not perform such optimizations,
> so whether or not it applies to C#, it does apply to D.
>
Quite frankly, I don't care what C# does. Java does it at link
time, and we can do it at link time the same way, that is all
that matter for this discussion.
Unless C# don't do it because it is impossible, this is only a C#
implementation detail.
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