Slower than Python

[Walter Bright]

On 3/1/2013 1:28 PM, cvk012c wrote:
> But I still kind of disappointed because I expected a much better performance
> boost and got only 7%. Counting that Python is not the fastest scripting
> language I think that similar Perl and Java scripts will outperform D easily.
> Thanks Andrei and simendsjo for a quick response though.

Python's splitter, which you are measuring, isn't written in Python. It is 
written in C. You're actually comparing a bit of C code with a bit of D code.