Message passing between threads: Java 4 times faster than D

2012-02-09 Thread Nicolae Mihalache
Hello, I'm a complete newbie in D and trying to compare with Java. I implemented a simple test for measuring the throughput in message passing between threads. I see that Java can pass about 4mil messages/sec while D only achieves 1mil/sec. I thought that D should be faster. The messages are

Re: Message passing between threads: Java 4 times faster than D

2012-02-09 Thread Nicolae Mihalache
wrote: Nicolae Mihalache xproma...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm a complete newbie in D and trying to compare with Java. I implemented  a simple test for measuring the throughput in message passing between threads. I see that Java can pass about 4mil messages/sec while D only achieves 1mil/sec. I

Re: reference documentation format

2011-11-24 Thread Nicolae Mihalache
This looks much better than the official one. How is it generated? On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Dejan Lekic dejan.le...@gmail.com wrote: Nicolae, you can also browse the http://cutedoc.dav1d.de - it is an alternative view of the runtime documentation. :)

Re: reference documentation format

2011-11-21 Thread Nicolae Mihalache
, Jonathan M Davis jmdavisp...@gmx.com wrote: On Monday, November 21, 2011 05:30:53 Nicolae Mihalache wrote: I also expect that the situation will be fixed eventually, but in the meanwhile, can I issue a feature request? I see the Issues page is disabled on the dmd github page: https

Re: reference documentation format

2011-11-20 Thread Nicolae Mihalache
...@erdani.org wrote: On 11/19/11 2:11 PM, Nicolae Mihalache wrote: Hello, (I'm a complete newbie in D) I find that the format of the reference documentation (e.g. http://www.d-programming-**language.org/phobos/std_**datetime.htmlhttp://www.d-programming-language.org/phobos/std_datetime.html

Re: reference documentation format

2011-11-20 Thread Nicolae Mihalache
jmdavisp...@gmx.com wrote: On Sunday, November 20, 2011 13:20:00 Nicolae Mihalache wrote: If this module contains only functions, it looks fine. But I see it's manually written. I would think it is possible to generate an index with all the functions, classes, structs, etc and with a short

reference documentation format

2011-11-19 Thread Nicolae Mihalache
Hello, (I'm a complete newbie in D) I find that the format of the reference documentation (e.g. http://www.d-programming-language.org/phobos/std_datetime.html) does not make it very easy to find what you need. I think it would be much easier if at the top of each module would be an overview with