Inherent code performance advantages of D over C?

[Araq]

On Monday, 9 December 2013 at 20:38:34 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 12/9/2013 11:45 AM, Araq wrote:
>> On Monday, 9 December 2013 at 19:19:46 UTC, Walter Bright 
>> wrote:
>>> On 12/9/2013 6:24 AM, Araq wrote:
>>>> ("When in doubt, assume it modifies this location.")
>> > And it's usually in doubt, often enough to make that 
>> > optimization a pipe dream.
>> I disagree.
>
> I'm not without some experience with this - I have written a 
> data flow analysis optimizer (it's in dmd) and I know how they 
> work.

Well so do I.