Inherent code performance advantages of D over C?

[Sean Kelly]

On Friday, 6 December 2013 at 22:20:19 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>
> "there is no way proper C code can be slower than those 
> languages."

Didn't Bjarne cover this in his C++ performance talk at SD West 
in 2007?  Templates alone can make C++ and D code faster than 
even hand-optimized C.  And that doesn't even consider some of 
the other points you mentioned.