Humble benchmark (fisher's exact test)

[max haughton]

On Saturday, 14 August 2021 at 19:28:42 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
wrote:
> On Saturday, 14 August 2021 at 16:20:21 UTC, Tejas wrote:
>> [...]
>
> If you pay me I can produce a faster D version of whatever 
> small program you want.
> But the reality is that noone really _needs_ those benchmark 
> programs, and thinking about optimizing them is an adequate 
> punishment for writing them.
>
> The only things I can think of where C++ could wins a bit 
> against D was that the ICC compiler could auto-vectorize 
> transcendentals. Like logf in a loop, which LLVM doesn't do.
> But the ICC compiler has been moving to LLVM recently.
>
> When your compiler see the same IR from different front-end 
> language, in the end it is the same codegen.

ICC *has* moved to LLVM. Past tense now, sadly.