On 2013-03-02 20:27, Walter Bright wrote:
In D, you can write custom versions of algorithms to exploit unique characteristics of particular data structures. I don't regard that as a failure.
If you use the most obvious function/way from the standard library to perform a task in Python and you do the same in D. If the D version is slower that's not good.
As you've seen here people will use what's available in the standard library and if that's not good enough compared to what's available in other languages' standard libraries, they will complain. If a function in Phobos can't match the corresponding function in another std lib, I think we're doing something wrong. Or the they just happened to use a language where the std lib was optimized better for that particular task.
-- /Jacob Carlborg
