On Thursday, 30 March 2017 at 10:28:01 UTC, dennis luehring wrote:
Am 30.03.2017 um 08:58 schrieb Ervin Bosenbacher:
That is the same, that came as a shock to me.
most compilers (for many languages) can optimize your
super-trivial example down to nothing - for at least the last
10 years or more
so whats the point? you're talkin about "performance is
critical for me"
but missing even minor knowledge about todays compiler powers?
for a benchmark you need:
-loops, running millions of times, preventing IO and do now
fall into the completely-optimized-to-nothing-trap etc.
I understand what you are saying, it wasn't a thorough all
encompassing analysis just wanted a quick POC and convince myself
whether D lang is sufficient enough for my case. I have already
accepted the fact that if I want to optimize my Python code in
certain situations, not all because you can use better algos,
data structures, etc then I have to drop down to C++ or C using
say pybind11. Instead of that D. And then if I am not happy with
something I can drop to C or C++ anyway because its ABI
compatible with C and with limitations with C++, right? After I
have accepted the fact that I have to use various tools to solve
various problems its not much of an issue. But with D i have to
less code which is always better. Less code, less complexity,
less bugs... etc I am not going to go down this vortex. :)
Yes I have much less knowledge of compilers probably than you do
but I am happy with these results.
On another note my first choice was rust, and I have tried and
tried, rejecting it multiple times. I am happy with D.
