"Nick Sabalausky" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > This post: > http://www.realworldtech.com/forums/index.cfm?action=detail&id=110745&threadid=110549&roomid=2 > > ...has made me realize that it would be very good for D if we had some > good D-vs-C++ *compilation* benchmarks. Something template-heavy, and > preferably real-world. Or maybe something specifically > meta-programming-heavy that has four versions: >
Come to think of it, another good benchmark to have (not really a compilation benchmark this time, though) would be D (with and without FastCGI) vs PHP. Adam already posted some encouraging ad-hoc results, but a real benchmark would be a great thing to have. Would probably be difficult to design/run though. But if the overhead from using PHP really does rival or surpass the overhead from using plain vanilla CGI, then a reliable benchmark could clear up the long-held misconceptions about CGI, and give anyone who's server allows custom CGI an extra reason to go from PHP to D.
