Inherent code performance advantages of D over C?

[Walter Bright]

On 12/9/2013 11:45 AM, Araq wrote:
> On Monday, 9 December 2013 at 19:19:46 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 12/9/2013 6:24 AM, Araq wrote:
>>> ("When in doubt, assume it modifies this location.")
> > And it's usually in doubt, often enough to make that optimization a pipe dream.
> I disagree.

I'm not without some experience with this - I have written a data flow analysis 
optimizer (it's in dmd) and I know how they work.