Benchmark of D against other languages

[weaselcat via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 2 April 2015 at 21:55:59 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On 1 April 2015 at 04:17, weaselcat via Digitalmars-d
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 31 March 2015 at 23:53:07 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, 31 March 2015 at 18:20:05 UTC, cym13 wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I found this repository (reddit!) that hosts common 
>>>> benchmarks for many
>>>> languages such as D, Nim, Go, python, C, etc... It uses only 
>>>> standard
>>>> structures not to influence the benchmark.
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks
>>>
>>>
>>> dmd in benchmark => worthless
>>> there really needs to be a big red warning that dmd is just 
>>> the reference
>>> implementation and use LDC/GDC for performance.
>>
>>
>> all this benchmark made me realize is that other languages and 
>> compilers are
>> dog slow.
>>
>> Removed everything except ruby, crystal, C, CPP, nim, and 
>> D(dmd and ldc),
>> and go to save myself time. The rust version the code is for 
>> is outdated, so
>> I couldn't do rust.
>>
>
> [snip]
>
> Out of curiousity, which version of GDC are you using there?  
> Looking
> at the results published on github look worrying, given that 
> they used
> an outdated (by our community's standards) version of Phobos 
> with GDC
> (2.058, if memory serves well).  If more recent versions (DMD 
> 2.067,
> LDC 0.15) are behind by a second or more, that might suggest 
> that
> somewhere, something went horribly wrong in the library.
>
> Iain.

gdc (GCC) 4.9.2
I'm not sure how to get GDC to show which D version it's based on 
- but I think it's 2.065. I'm using the latest one available in 
Arch repos.