Optimizations and performance

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On Thursday, 9 June 2016 at 01:46:45 UTC, Dave wrote:
> On Wednesday, 8 June 2016 at 22:32:49 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
>> 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?
>
> Languages should be fast by default. I always find it missing 
> the point when people go crazy during these benchmarking tests 
> trying to make the code as fast as possible by tweaking both 
> the code and the compiler flags. Go through that effort with a 
> 2 million line app. Tell me how long that takes.

YES +1000