Re: Optimizations and performance

[Dave via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 9 June 2016 at 13:56:37 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Thursday, 9 June 2016 at 13:52:38 UTC, Dave wrote:
But it is the point of benchmarking

So it's not "languages should be fast by default", but 
"benchmarks should be fast by default"?

Also, the last I checked, one of D's selling points is that it is 
'fast'. So it seems to be at least a design goal of this 
particular language.