Why Java (server VM) is faster than D?

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 3 August 2015 at 16:47:58 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> gets me down to 0.182s with ldc on OS X

Yeah, I tried dmd with the final and didn't get a difference but 
gdc with final (and -frelease, very important for max speed here 
since without it the method calls are surrounded by various 
assertions) and got similar speed to the hand written one too.