On 2/22/12 9:51 PM, bearophile wrote:
Regarding the comparison between dynamic languages like Python or
Ruby and D: what Andrei has said is not fully fair. A simple common
scripting task: read the lines of a text file and put them in a hash.
This is probably faster in Python compared to D.
I assume you're referring to the point starting around 16:50. I don't
see how fairness is an issue here. Anyway, the point there is that in my
experience performance of short scripts in dynamic languages generally
decays quickly when things get interesting. Of course, it comes without
saying that choosing one particular script that exercises a very small,
well-honed area of a toolchain and that is essentially dominated by
library calls may show excellent performance of a scripting language.
I am willing to write a benchmark too, if asked.
What would be better would be investigating what particular aspects of D
we could improve (and better yet, contribute the improvements themselves).
If one were to corroborate this post with this other one:
http://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]
the conclusion is there's a conspiracy afoot targeted at sabotaging D
scripting :o).
Andrei
