Inherent code performance advantages of D over C?

[Paulo Pinto]

On Thursday, 12 December 2013 at 03:34:16 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
> On 12/11/2013 6:11 PM, ed wrote:
>> ....
>
> BTW, this sounds a lot like when I used to develop real mode 
> MSDOS programs. An errant pointer in MSDOS would frequently 
> crash the system and even scramble the hard disk. It was pretty 
> bad. Therefore, I'd do all my development on a protected mode 
> operating system (Windows NT or OS/2 16 bit), and only when it 
> was bug free would I even attempt to bring it up under MSDOS. 
> This approach saved me endless hours of misery.

I used Turbo Pascal instead. :)