Why Is D So Slow?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Friday, May 25, 2018 00:35:43 Kaleb McKinney via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> I began learning D to get a performance upgrade from Python for
> performance reliant applications, and I was disappointed to find
> that a basic "Hello, World!" program takes almost 8 seconds to
> run, where in Python, it only took about a tenth of a second. Why
> is it so slow?

The only time that I've heard of anything like that was when the person was
on Windows, and their antivirus was scanning the program every time they
started it.

https://forum.dlang.org/post/kihdnggkyicbaczncdhr@forum.dlang.org

- Jonathan M Davis