On Monday, 4 March 2013 at 04:36:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 3/3/13 9:31 PM, deadalnix wrote:
On Sunday, 3 March 2013 at 20:18:58 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 3/3/2013 7:09 AM, 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.
Nothing in this thread suggests that D needs to switch its
library
implementations to C.
Interestingly, I tried the indexOf() benchmark using C's
memchr() and
memcmp() from VC's runtime library. It was not faster than
Andrei's
optimized D one.
Maybe it is time to look at the python implementation and see
why it is
faster.
Was the conclusion that it's faster?
Andrei
It seems that I was wrong, and missed the point that both
benchmark weren't using the same string. Sorry for that.
