Could D compete in a competition like this?

[Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 13:10:12 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 13:01:36 UTC, Gary Willoughby 
> wrote:
>> Could D compete in a competition like this?
>
> The guts will have to be done in assembly or Intel intrinsics...

Why do you say that.  Seems like picking the correct data 
structure/algorithms would be of more importance than the 
programming language.  I don't see why this couldn't be made 
'fast' with just about any programming language.