Inherent code performance advantages of D over C?

[Walter Bright]

On 12/10/2013 3:23 PM, Marco Leise wrote:
> Isn't it fairer to compile only (-c):
>
> dmd -c std_stdio.d  0,30s user 0,07s system 99% cpu 0,374 total
> dmd -c printf.d     0,00s user 0,00s system 87% cpu 0,008 total
> gcc -c printf.c     0,02s user 0,01s system 93% cpu 0,031 total

Yup, since gcc is not statically linking with the C runtime library, but dmd is 
statically linking to Phobos.