jasonw <[email protected]> writes: > Don't get me wrong, D is already much faster than many "toy" > languages. Faster than Java and C# in some applications. What's > relevant is that the C/C++/Fortran users will only switch if D > provides concrete performance improvements over their *existing* > toolchains. It has taken LLVM several years and they're not yet even > on par with GCC in all benchmarks.
I would challenge this statement somewhat. I do high-performance programming in C++. I don't expect D compilers to generate faster code than C++, but to rather that they will achieve parity. What I do expect is that D will make it significantly easier to write and maintain this fast code. That is worth quite a bit. Developer time is important even when writing high-performance code.
