On Saturday, 2 March 2013 at 16:09:02 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2013-03-02 02:10, Walter Bright wrote:
Python's splitter, which you are measuring, isn't written in
Python. It
is written in C. You're actually comparing a bit of C code
with a bit of
D code.
Does that really matter. He's using Python, if the function is
part of the standard library and if it's implement in Python or
C doesn't really matter.
It does.
Failing to beat mature, optimised C is not anything to be ashamed
of, but being slower than python would be an abject failure of D
as a compiled, systems programming language.
