Can't wait! Please ask Jon to write something up on it. For posterity On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce < [email protected]> wrote:
> Our long time member and friend Jon Degenhardt has graciously accepted to > present on very short notice. > > He will give a preview of some performance benchmarks that he has been > running of tools in C, Rust, and Go that overlap with what Jon writes in D > at eBay. Jon has been observing that D versions are faster in nearly all > cases, and not by a small margin. In a total surprise, Jon's version of > ‘cut’ is faster than GNU cut on large files: On a 4.8GB, 7M lines test > file, GNU cut takes 12.4 sec, while Jon's version takes 4.2 sec. (GNU cut > is faster on small files.) > > The big take-away is that this was achieved without a lot of low-level > coding, using mostly high level D primitives and the standard library. > There was some tuning and lessons learned, but nothing extensive. > > > https://www.meetup.com/D-Lang-Silicon-Valley/events/23642147 > 2/?eventId=236421472 > > I may post a link to Google Hangouts here at the time of the event (7pm > Pacific time). Hopefully, the mic will not be muted. (True story! :p) > > Ali >
