Inherent code performance advantages of D over C?

[Walter Bright]

On 12/13/2013 11:07 AM, David Nadlinger wrote:
> LDC in fact implements DMD-style inline assembly (occasionally there are bugs,
> though, as it's a complete reimplementation).

Thank you! That's awesome!

> I don't think it would be unreasonable to work towards a common D ABI on the
> various Posix x86_64 systems, but given that DMD comes with its own bespoke
> exception handling implementation which doesn't really make sense to implement
> in GDC/LDC (as libunwind is the platform standard on Linux/… anyway), there is
> not really much motivation to start work on aligning the other parts of the ABI
> either.

I agree that an ABI would be good to work towards. Brad's right about why dmd's 
EH is different.