On Friday, 1 March 2013 at 22:02:02 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
On 03/01/2013 10:28 PM, cvk012c wrote:
...
On my hardware with -inline options it now takes about 15 secs
which is
still slower than Python but with both -inline and
-noboundscheck it
takes 13 secs and finally beats Python.
But I still kind of disappointed because I expected a much
better
performance boost and got only 7%. Counting that Python is not
the
fastest scripting language I think that similar Perl and Java
scripts
will outperform D easily.
Never make such statements without doing actual measurements.
Furthermore, it is completely meaningless anyway. Performance
benchmarks always compare language implementations, not
languages.
(Case in point: You get twice the speed by using another
compiler backend implementation.)
Still, there is a case to be made for a performance tests suite
that could be run after (or before) each release of the language,
like http://speed.pypy.org
.
