Inherent code performance advantages of D over C?

[Walter Bright]

On 12/9/2013 10:50 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Does this currently only happen inside a single expression? Any plans to
> have the optimizer recognize pure calls in separate (but identical)
> expressions? Jacob's example seems like it *should* be easily detected:
>
> 	int a = pureFunc(a,b,c);
> 	int b = pureFunc(a,b,c); // should elide this second call

Certainly more can be done, as with many other optimizations, but I haven't been 
able to spend much time on it.