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

"cblack01" <cblack01@cox.net> wrote in message news:ad0t37$a9c$1@digitaldaemon.com...

> 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.

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++.

> > 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.
>
> 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.