On Monday, 4 January 2016 at 00:24:51 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
On Sunday, 3 January 2016 at 18:56:07 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
I still have to disagree with you that the example I submitted
was fair. Accessing global memory in D is going to be much
slower than accessing stack memory, […]
What leads you to this belief? (Beyond cache locality
considerations, which are not so important if the data is
large.)
The example in the article and the example I submitted to
DlangScience/examples have very different speeds:
https://github.com/DlangScience/examples/blob/master/mean_of_columns.d
Article example: 5 µs
DlangScience example: 145 µs
Both when compiled with LDC
