On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 09:43:47 UTC, ixid wrote:
You rarely need to use BigInt for heavy lifting though, often it's just summing, not that I would argue against optimization. I think speed is absolutely vital and one of the most powerful things we could do to promote D would be to run the best benchmarks site for all language comers and make sure D does very well. Every time there's a benchmark contest it seems to unearth D performance issues that can be greatly improved upon.
Yes it is. Many are trying to find performance problems D. And sometimes it turns out.
I'm sure you will beat me pretty quickly, as I said my maths isn't very good but it might motivate me to solve some more! =)
No, I will start to beat you until next year, because, unfortunately, I will not have a full year of access to the computer. We can say that this is something like a long vacation :)
