Inherent code performance advantages of D over C?

[Dicebot]

On Tuesday, 10 December 2013 at 21:05:53 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 12/10/2013 12:39 PM, Dicebot wrote:
>> I think it is better to rephrase it as "writing C code in D is 
>> possible but even
>> less convenient than in C".
>
> Why would it be less convenient?
>
> At the least, it'll compile a lot faster!

We have been already fighting on that topic several times here 
and on reddit ;) Probably the most frustrating difference for me 
are array literals that allocate in D, literally banning its 
usage from typical C-like code.