Optimizations and performance

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 8 June 2016 at 22:19:47 UTC, Bauss wrote:
> D definitely needs some optimizations, I mean look at its 
> benchmarks compared to other languages: 
> https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks
>
> I believe the first step towards better performance would be 
> identifying the specific areas that are slow.
>
> I definitely believe D could do much better than what's shown.
>
> Let's find D's performance weaknesses and crack them down.

I wouldn't put too much emphasis on that benchmark as the 
implementations appear different? Note that Felix compiles to 
C++, yet beats C++ in the same test? Yes, Felix claims to do some 
high level optimizations, but doesn't that just tell us that the 
C++ code tested wasn't optimal?