D looses in speed to Common Lisp

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 01:20:13 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> On Monday, 11 May 2015 at 23:32:48 UTC, Dzhon Smit wrote:
>
>> The point was to compare the performance of nearly identical 
>> pieces of code in D and in CL.  However, when I compile this 
>> idiomatic sample with `dmd fib2`, I get
>>
>> $ time ./fib2
>> 0
>>
>> real    0m2.226s
>> user    0m2.223s
>> sys     0m0.003s
>>
>> which is still slower.

ie, especially post internet, one has a responsibility for the 
effect one's words have on the world because they will be read by 
potentially many people that don't have the context to hand and 
take things literally.