Jarrett Billingsley wrote: > I hope bearophile will eventually understand that DMD is not good at > optimizing code, and so comparing its output to GCC's is ultimately > meaningless.
Personally, I appreciate seeing this stuff from bearophile. I use D in ways where speed really does count. One of my draws to D was that it was a systems language that could be faster than something like Java. I also was sick of C++ and its problems, such as code that requires workarounds for compiler bugs or lack of compiler optimization. It's really sad to see D requiring the same kind of stuff. For D to become as mainstream as C++, all of this stuff that bearophile posts must be fixed.
