> the idea that performance in the platform does not matter is wrong. But nobody said this. Maybe we're too deep in the thread for anyone to remember, so let's

> the idea that performance in the platform does not matter is wrong. But nobody said this. Maybe we're too deep in the thread for anyone to remember, so let's refresh our memories. The claim was not that performance doesn't matter, or that 1% never matters, but that any language 1% slower than D is currently could categorically not be considered a systems programming language. That's even more absolutist and absurd than "performance does not matter".