== Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org)'s > Thanks for taking the time to build a credibla baseline. A lot of this > depends on the perspective. We're looking at a 2.9x slowdown after all.
Right, but this isn't a 2.9x slowdown in real world code. It's a 2.9x slowdown in a synthetic benchmark that does nothing but increment and decrement reference counts. Real world code would likely have a loop body and stuff. That's why I consider it minor.
