On Sunday, 3 March 2013 at 15:09:58 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2013-03-02 17:48, John Colvin wrote:
It does.
Failing to beat mature, optimised C is not anything to be
ashamed of,
but being slower than python would be an abject failure of D
as a
compiled, systems programming language.
Then D needs to get faster, or we need to switch to C for some
std lib functions. In that case, as Walter said, we have failed.
I agree that anything that makes us faster is good, but I
wouldn't go so far as to say we've failed if we're not as fast as
the very fastest.
