Programming languages and performance

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/13/2015 4:28 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/32f4as/why_most_high_level_languages_are_slow/
> Good article, discussion is a bit lame.

One of the reasons I've been range-ifying Phobos is not only to remove 
dependence on the GC, but often to eliminate allocations entirely, by removing 
the need for temporaries to hold intermediate results.

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/3187
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/3185
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/3179
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/3178
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/3167