Why Is D So Slow?

[rikki cattermole]

On 25/05/2018 1:11 PM, Kaleb McKinney wrote:
> On Friday, 25 May 2018 at 00:40:55 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>> On Friday, 25 May 2018 at 00:35:43 UTC, Kaleb McKinney 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?
>>
>> If you're on Windows, it's probably an antivirus issue.
> 
> What would the antivirus be doing to slow it down?

Scanning it, monitoring it.

Like any good antivirus should be doing.

Add an exclusion path for your projects directory (and toolchains too), 
it'll save you a lot of trouble down the road.