D vs Go in real life

[Ary Borenszweig]

On 11/21/13 6:36 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 11/21/13 1:16 PM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
>> On Thursday, 21 November 2013 at 16:23:07 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Fortunately a lot has changed since :o).
>>
>> Please, do tell. ;)
>
> Not much that people don't know already. We have one solid D project
> installed and a couple of heavy-hitting engineers have started using D
> for scripts and tools (e.g. replacing Python for a 2x speedup for the
> same source code size/complexity).

I would have expected a lot more speedup than just 2x, D being a 
compiled language.