Inherent code performance advantages of D over C?

[Timon Gehr]

On 12/08/2013 04:37 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 10:30:37AM +0100, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On 12/08/2013 06:35 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Or maybe this is just another one of those cultural old age
>>> indicators?  Has the term "refactoring" shifted to mean "variable
>>> renaming" among the younger coders these days? Genuine question. I'm
>>> baffled that these two things could even remotely be considered
>>> similar things.
>>>
>>>
>>> T
>>>
>>
>> "Refactoring" means changing code without changing its functional
>> behaviour.
>
> OK, but still, renaming must be the most trivial of them all?
>
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> T
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I don't think so. Eg. stripping comments and formatting is more trivial. :o)

Also, it is not too easy, an entire D front end and some additional 
static analysis is probably required to automatically rename symbols in 
a reliable way.