D vs Go in real life

[SomeDude]

On Friday, 22 November 2013 at 15:52:31 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
> Ary Borenszweig <ary at esperanto.org.ar> wrote:
>> On 11/21/13 6:36 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> On 11/21/13 1:16 PM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
>>>> On Thursday, 21 November 2013 at 16:23:07 UTC, Andrei 
>>>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>>> Fortunately a lot has changed since :o).
>>>> 
>>>> Please, do tell. ;)
>>> 
>>> Not much that people don't know already. We have one solid D 
>>> project
>>> installed and a couple of heavy-hitting engineers have 
>>> started using D
>>> for scripts and tools (e.g. replacing Python for a 2x speedup 
>>> for the
>>> same source code size/complexity).
>> 
>> I would have expected a lot more speedup than just 2x, D being 
>> a compiled language.
>
> Amdahl's law.
>
> Andrei

BTW, D needs a multithreading example here:
http://saml.rilspace.org/moar-languagez-gc-content-in-python-d-fpc-c-and-c