Larry:
Of course when run on very high end machines, this diff is
almost non existent but we want to run on very low powered
hardware.
Ok, even with a longer code, there will always be a launch
penalty for d. So I cannot use it for very high performance
loops.
If you run it on very low powered hardware then you may not need
the GC. So if you disable the run-time (stubbing out the GC) the
start-up time of the D code will be smaller.
I think people here like you are really too quick at dismissing D
:-)
Bye,
bearophile