A Perspective on D from game industry

[c0de517e via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 15 June 2014 at 18:50:14 UTC, Meta wrote:
> On Sunday, 15 June 2014 at 11:28:12 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
>> http://c0de517e.blogspot.ca/2014/06/where-is-my-c-replacement.html?m=1
>>
>> The arguments against D are pretty weak if I'm honest, but I 
>> think it's important we understand what people think of D. I 
>> can confirm this sentiment is fairly common in the industry.
>>
>> Watch out for the little jab at Andrei :-P
>
> I wonder where he got the idea that D isn't high performance... 
> Perhaps the fact that it has a GC?

I didn't mean that it doesn't produce fast code and I have 
nothing against GC (if you can precisely control when you heap 
allocate).

I meant not high-performance as not a HPC language (numerical 
computation) like Julia, ISPC and the like, languages that focus 
on executing parallel code.

It seems to me that D comes from the C lineage of "systems" 
low-level languages, but there is always this confusion that 
low-level means made for demanding computations.

I distinguish the two also because lots of C++ aficionados think 
C++ is just the "fastest" language made for performance, but it's 
clearly not, in fact before 11 it didn't even know what a thread 
is, couldn't restrict pointer aliasing and it still today doesn't 
know about SIMD (great that D does - even if I'd rather have 
arbitrary sized vectors nowadays).