On Monday, 9 December 2013 at 19:45:34 UTC, Araq wrote:
That language X is faster than C in "practice" because X is much more developer friendly and thus you can tweak your code much easier etc. is an argument of every language out there.
Not really. It's very hard to beat sensibly written C* in most languages. D is one of the few where you have a chance on anything other than very specific benchmarks. Others include fortran and c++.
*Note: not the impossible, perfect C that no one can actually write for more than ~1000 lines. Just good, straightforward, normal C code.
