Why Is D So Slow?

[bachmeier]

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.