• "cblack01" <cblack01 cox.net> May 28 2002
• "anderson" <anderson firestar.com.au> May 31 2002
• "cblack01" <cblack01 cox.net> Jun 01 2002

"cblack01" <cblack01 cox.net> writes:

Hey,

A quick question.  I like C#'s implementation of reflection. Does D do
reflection?

Also, Does D do variable parameters?  C# has a good convention for variable
parameters using the params keyword like this:

void Print(params string stuffToPrint[])
{
    foreach(oneThing in stuffToPrint) System.Console.WriteLn(oneThing);
}

Then you would call it like this:

Print("Printing ", "variable ", "parameters");

I know it seems like I'm bragging on C#, but I'm not really.  I would never
use it since I do a lot of scientific applications that are too
computationally intensive for an interpreted language.  C# is too slow.
I've used it.  I do think that C# has beautiful syntax, though.

Thanks,

Craig

"anderson" <anderson firestar.com.au> writes:

"cblack01" <cblack01 cox.net> wrote in message
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 I know it seems like I'm bragging on C#, but I'm not really.  I would


 use it since I do a lot of scientific applications that are too
 computationally intensive for an interpreted language.


People keep bring this up and it's un-true. Although C# can be interpreted
but many versions can also compile code with the same or better efficiency
then C++.

"cblack01" <cblack01 cox.net> writes:

 I know it seems like I'm bragging on C#, but I'm not really.  I would


 use it since I do a lot of scientific applications that are too
 computationally intensive for an interpreted language.


 People keep bring this up and it's un-true. Although C# can be interpreted
 but many versions can also compile code with the same or better efficiency
 then C++.


C# does NOT compile down to binary code.  It uses a JIT and it is very slow.
I know. I've done the benchmarking myself.  I tested it to be about 5 times
slower than native C++ with simple object-oriented test programs.  I suspect
it would be even slower for more complex projects.  The only way C# performs
comparably well is with non-object-oriented simple monolithic programs, like
a simple for loop.  Then C# has good performance.  Don't trust benchmarks
that say, "C# is as fast as C++", or even "C# is only twice as slow as C++".
This is just not true.  Word to your momma.

Perhaps one day there will be a native code compiler for C# but I suspect
not in the near future.