On Friday, 17 May 2013 at 08:28:38 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2013-05-16 21:54, Walter Bright wrote:
We should also be aware that while Python code itself is slow,
its
library functions are heavily optimized C code. So, if the
benchmark
consists of calling a Python library function, it'll run as
fast as any
optimized C code.
But someone using Python won't care about that. Most of them
will think they just use Python and have no idea there's
optimized C code under the hood.
I'm not sure how we can respond to that.
If naive D code has to be significantly faster than optimised C
for people to not go "D sucks, it's only as fast as python" then
we're pretty much doomed by peoples stupidity.
