Is D slow?

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 10 June 2017 at 13:43:48 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday, 10 June 2017 at 12:44:07 UTC, Honey wrote:
>> On Saturday, 10 June 2017 at 12:23:05 UTC, Nicholas Wilson 
>> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> Are you saying that introducing additional checks enables the 
>> optimizer to eliminate more or more costly checks than it 
>> could without introducing those additional checks in the first 
>> place? Can you give an example?
>
> My bad I misread the original quote, misread that as 
> performance increase.
> turning bounds checks off should always result in faster code.

I can confirm on my system, ldc with bounds check off was at 
least twice as slow as with just -release.

Definitely seems like a bug

-Steve