On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 16:09 -0400, Don Dailey wrote: > I know that the author of D has not emphasized optimizations > but I think he is now that it has reached version 1.0 and > beyond.
I've been following D via their newsgroups. The "1.0" version was a joke. The long wait and big coming out party implied that it was stable and big feature changes would wait for a much later version. In reality, several critical bugs were immediately found (but quickly fixed) after release. The really crazy thing is that it seems like every new 0.001 version brings out changes to the core language. I kid you not; have a look at the Changelog: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/changelog.html The author is working on some pretty drastic stuff, too, trying to make D into a powerful macro language, so that you can build your own domain languages in D. Don't get me wrong, I'm not dismissing the language. D is a cool language and a worthy C/C++ replacement. Walter (the author) does good work at an amazing pace. He even finds time to fix obvious performance problems when they are pointed out. I just wanted to correct the impression that D is stable and being optimized. I'd also say that using C when a sane alternative keeps you within 1.5 the speed of C is nuts, but to each their own :) -Jeff _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
