Inherent code performance advantages of D over C?

[deadalnix]

On Saturday, 7 December 2013 at 16:23:17 UTC, Maxim Fomin wrote:
> This is not the first time you are commenting my 'tenor' which 
> is an unusual thing. Of course, it is dissosant in this 
> 'forum', if you mean by forum constant advertisement which does 
> not express full information about the subject (like reddit 
> link bombing). When speaking about D newsgroups in general, I 
> found myself pretty neutral.
>

Sorry you aren't. Your argument do make a lot of sense. D do not 
devirtualize ? Can you explain me how C does ? You are actually 
mentioning drawback that C have too, the only difference between 
C and D on these is that C do not have the advantages.

> I remember regex implementation as example of superior 
> performance. I don't remember any other libraries, projects 
> (perhaps vide.d in some activities). Meanwhile, many people 
> regular complain on some problems. I do remember only one 
> thread (it was started by Jonathan) which was devoted to single 
> purpose of describing how D language is usefull and good to 
> solve problems.

Tango.xml is another example. When it come to text processing, D 
is a no match to C.