Inherent code performance advantages of D over C?

[Szymon Gatner]

On Monday, 9 December 2013 at 09:58:01 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Not when writing portable code.
>
> Nowadays I just do JVM/.NET stuff, but I still remember the
> headaches of writing portable C and C++ code across commercial
> UNIX systems during 1999 - 2001.
>

Don't know about C much but writing portable C++ is not a 
pleasant task, especially now, when you really want to use C++11 
features. Saying that nobody cares about portable code is of 
course completely ignorant. I would even say that today it is 
more relevant that single-platfrm code.