Optimizing Java using D

[Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 21 June 2014 at 00:56:32 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Friday, 20 June 2014 at 23:34:32 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/28mp3m/the_magic_forest_problem_revisited_optimising/
>>
>> The article indicates there may be a performance problem with 
>> std.algorithm.sort
>
> 2 lessons :
>
> 1. Kill the builtin sort function. He is probably calling that 
> one instead of the standard lib one.
> 2. Our associative array are a joke. Inconsistent interface + 
> slow.
>
> H;S; Teoh worked on an alternative AA implementation, do we 
> know where it stands ?

He and Dicebot documented the issues he came up against pretty
thoroughly here:

http://wiki.dlang.org/AA_Implementation_Issues