== Quote from bearophile ([email protected])'s article > Bill Baxter: > > D used to be there, but the folks running the shootout de-listed it > > for some reason. > > Maybe it was lack of a 64-bit compiler? > I think the notgentle person that manages the Shootout site has removed D because D programs were too much similar to the C programs. He is looking for very different code, not slight variations. > Bye, > bearophile
Yeah, I think it would be much more interesting (for C++ as well as D) to see benchmarks in idiomatic D style. This will likely be slower than code written in the C-like subset, as there is really not much reason why C-like D code should be any slower than C. However, it will give a better indication of how much the abstractions present in D really cost if you choose to use them.
