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On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 01:04:56 UTC, Brandon Ragland 
wrote:
> There was a lovely article by a fellow for his PhD on how D 
> garbage collector was literally killing his JavaScript engine,

It was a she :-).

Some people have focused on the GC, but you actually need to 
change the strategy so you look at fewer cachelines, prefetch 
perfectly and do less work at runtime. I would estimate that you 
could improve global mark-sweep by 2-4x, but it takes a lot of 
work, not only on the runtime. And maybe 2-4x improvement is too 
little anyway.

> And @nogc is just a band-aid fix. Might as well go back to C or 
> C++ and leave the silly @nogc behind with all it's weird 
> integration rules when working around managed memory.

I don't agree. I think D could find a sweet-spot as a cleaned up 
C/C++ solution, but then you need to change the semantics 
somewhat.

I'm very much in favour of a reduced version of D that keeps, and 
improves, on the compile time advantage D has. Essentially is a 
zero-runtime language that is better than C.