On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:58:40 -0500, Justin Johansson wrote: > Daniel de Kok Wrote: > >> I thought this may be interesting... DMD will easily outperform the >> current standard Go compiler: >> >> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php? test=all&lang=go&lang2=gpp&box=1 >> >> Of >> >> course, there's also the C backend, but apparently it's not as complete >> as 6g/8g yet. > > Believe you me. Go are watching us as much as we are watching Go.
You'd think they'd have to be for how afraid they are to admit D's existence. I mean could you imagine the speech: "We really like where D was going but no one was using it. So we decided to create are own by putting a mirror next to our D code and adding a little more verbosity while removing key features we plan to add in the future."
