Re: Optimizations and performance

[Wyatt via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 9 June 2016 at 01:46:45 UTC, Dave wrote:
Languages should be fast by default.

This.  4,000,000,000% this.

If the naïve cases are bad, they're bad and trying to pretend 
that doesn't matter is some insidious denial.  Sure, nearly any 
code can be optimised to be some sort of "fast", but 99% of it 
never will be.

-Wyatt