Coolest D features

[Waldemar]

== Quote from Walter Bright (newshound at digitalmars.com)'s article
> Georg Wrede wrote:
> > Walter Bright wrote:
> >> Jason House wrote:
> >
> >>> It was reported that D was slower than C by a factor of 1.5.
> >>
> >> I bet that if they compared DMD with DMC, they'd have found no
> >> difference.
> >
> > That makes it sound like DMC is 1.5 slower than your average C.
> Your average C? No. It might be 1.5 slower than the specific C compiler
> the benchmarker used for that specific application. Performance for
> particular applications varies all over the map for different C compilers.

That may be but this specific C compiler is most likely gcc on Linux or VS C++ on
Windows.  The D compiler is probably dmd.  It's a bit shocking to see a 50%
difference.  Is there information which compilers were used?  And is there any
reason to believe the specifics of the benchmark could produce such a wide difference?