I did not realize that D was changing this fast. But I don't
have a problem with that yet - as long as the changes are clear
improvements which presumably they are.
You said this:
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 :)
1.5 is quite a bit of performance - especially if you are
the type to spend hours of coding to get such a speedup.
I'm not sure D is so much better that I'm willing to give
this much up, although I do really like it.
What have you heard about the optimizations? Has Walter
made serious improvements over the last several versions
in terms of execution speed of the binaries?
- Don
On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 20:43 -0400, Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
> 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
>
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