On Sunday, 30 June 2013 at 19:48:45 UTC, Gabi wrote:
The first question that came up was how it stands up with C++ performance wise ?
D, like C++, is a natively ahead-of-time compiled language. D also has very similar modelling, abstraction capabilities, and idioms to C++. The end result is that D programs are typically as fast as C++ programs, sometimes faster, sometimes slower.
It does depend on the compiler though. LDC and GDC will typically produce considerably faster code than DMD.
It's also worth mentioned that D's garbage collector isn't quite state-of-the-art, so programs that make heavy use of the GC may perform poorly. This will definitely improve, and there are already existing better GC implementations out there.
