Why Is D So Slow?

[Kaleb McKinney]

On Friday, 25 May 2018 at 00:47:00 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> 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

Thanks! Doing that cut my program's run time from 16 seconds to 1 
second!