So, I had a moment of immense dread and total helplessness.  I knew I was screwed and there was nothing I was going to do about it.

The moment just after the spoon full of summer squash got into her mouth, her sneeze arrived.  I even had to clean off the cover of Learn to Tango with D, as it was near ground zero at the time.  Parenting is glamorous.  Don't let anyone tell you differently.

 
 

Scott Sanders (stonecobra) has published some benchmarks for the shiny new Tango XML work that's been happening.  This is what happens when Kris gets involved in some optimization of code.  Sick, crazy-fast things start coming out.

For those of you who don't know, Tango is a standard library for the D Programming Language, and is an alternative to Phobos, the out-of-the-box standard library. 

I would love to see the other languages like C++ and Java put their best parsers up against this.  I think array slicing in D should soundly trounce them.

EDIT: Scott has fixed the graphs to show MB/sec as the metric.  I fixed some links in this post.

 
 

Intel open-sourced their TBB product today. 

Quoting the article:  "The aim of TBB, ..., is to make it easier for coders in C++ to express task-level parallelism"

Pfft.  Have these hacks never heard of D?  ;)  In any case, worth a look, to see if Tango can borrow anything...