Re: Inherent code performance advantages of D over C?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/6/13 11:34 PM, Maxim Fomin wrote:
On Friday, 6 December 2013 at 23:19:22 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Dmitry's regex also showed huge gains over C regex implementations.

This C code is easy to fix.

That's not quite so. The second best after ctRegex is the Javascript V8 
engine, which does the same thing - JITs the regex. This is not an easy 
fix for a traditional engine written in C.

Andrei