Is D slow?

[Johan Engelen via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 10 June 2017 at 11:43:06 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
> On Friday, 9 June 2017 at 16:21:22 UTC, Honey wrote:
>> What seems particularly strange to me is that -boundscheck=off 
>> leads to a performance decrease.
>
> Strange indeed.
> `-release` should be synonymous with `-release 
> -boundscheck=off`.

Nope it's not.
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/What_s_the_deal_with_-boundscheck_260237.html