bearophile wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu:
For now I suggest you to aim to be just about as fast as Python
in this task :-) Beating Python significantly on this task is
probably not easy.
Why?
Because it's a core functionality for Python so devs probably have
optimized it well, it's written in C, and in this case there is very
little interpreter overhead.
Then we can do whatever they've done. It's not like they're using APIs
nobody heard of.
It seems such a comparison of file I/O speed becomes in fact a
comparison of garbage collectors. That's fine, but in that case the
notion that D offers the possibility to avoid allocation should come
back to the table.
Andrei
