D looses in speed to Common Lisp

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 01:48:58 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Monday, 11 May 2015 at 21:15:33 UTC, Dzhon Smit wrote:
>
> Seems this:
>
> --dynamic-space-size 4GB
>
> is pretty important. I don't have that much RAM on my 
> Chromebook so I removed it. It dies quickly with the error
>
> Heap exhausted during garbage collection: 1408 bytes available, 
> 2240 requested.
>
> I'm guessing that your code is not doing the same thing as the 
> D code if you have to use tricks like that just to get it to 
> run. Having used Common Lisp, I know your program requires 
> extensive knowledge of the language, and was the result of a 
> careful optimization exercise - unlike the D code. It's 
> definitely not the kind of code you'd write after reading 
> Practical Common Lisp.

Thanks for this bit of information.