On 4/13/2015 4:28 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/32f4as/why_most_high_level_languages_are_slow/ Good article, discussion is a bit lame.
One of the reasons I've been range-ifying Phobos is not only to remove dependence on the GC, but often to eliminate allocations entirely, by removing the need for temporaries to hold intermediate results.
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/3187 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/3185 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/3179 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/3178 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/3167
