"Competitive Advantage with D" is one of the keynotes at C++Now 2017

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Saturday, 29 April 2017 at 11:24:36 UTC, Patrick Schluter 
wrote:
> C99 says "if an int can represent all values of the original 
> type, the value is converted to an int; otherwise, it is 
> converted to an unsigned int."

Well, C is making the simple assumption that registers are 
int-sized...

This is no longer true of course, as "registers" are "SIMD 
sized". So I am pretty sure it will lead to suboptimal code in 
some instances.

> While quite often surprising for people coming from other 
> languages, I think that Walter's persistence in following the 
> basic C rule is a good thing.

Why is it a good thing?