Inherent code performance advantages of D over C?

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On Sunday, 8 December 2013 at 13:00:26 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
Wakeling wrote:
> How is icc doing these days?  I used it years ago (almost 10 
> years ago!) when it produced significantly faster executables 
> than gcc, but I had the impression that more recent gcc 
> releases either matched its performance or significantly 
> narrowed the gap.

I don't know. People say the gap has reduced a lot and you have 
to use the #pragmas to get ahead.