I wrote an AR archive (.a files) parser in D

[IchorDev]

On Tuesday, 20 August 2024 at 19:53:40 UTC, Renato wrote:
> Now, I am curious why D is so much faster than Dart

That’s why I’d really like to know what D compiler & flags you’re 
measuring the speed with. Like, is it really faster across the 
board, or only when using optimised LDC2 builds?
I can imagine the difference could also be to do with Dart’s 
libraries introducing some overhead, like always calling stat 
when loading a file for instance.
Also interestingly you say that Dart can allocate faster than D? 
D’s allocation speed is usually part of its performance advantage 
over other languages, since many other languages just use C’s 
malloc. Do you know what Dart’s allocator is?