On Saturday, 23 March 2013 at 02:34:56 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Saturday, 23 March 2013 at 02:20:33 UTC, bearophile wrote:
I think someone will be happy to use D instead of C/C++ on the
web for performance-sensitive code, like games.
If it compiles to any kind of javascript it is a mistake to
think they'll be a performance boost over just writing
javascript, with or without annotations. Odds are there will be
leaky abstractions in the compile process that can hurt speed.
The DeltaBlue benchmark written in Dart, translated to JS using
dart2js, and run on V8 actually just started running faster than
handwritten JS running on V8.
http://www.dartlang.org/performance/#
Of course, the handwritten JS could be optimized to match
whatever dart2js is doing but it's an interesting result.
