Benchmark of D against other languages

[weaselcat via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 2 April 2015 at 03:55:53 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On 04/02/2015 03:35 AM, weaselcat wrote:
>> 
>> the benchmark pointed out two sore areas in D(AA and 
>> std.json,) would be
>> nice to see AA get updated as I often completely avoid using 
>> the
>> built-in AA.
>
> I filed two ERs already, both are pretty isolated and not too 
> hard to
> implement. I hope I don't have to do that myself.
>
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14385
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14386
>
> The real fix a.k.a. library AA is a much harder problem.

was it a conscious decision to make the AA [] operator not work 
like map/etc in C++?