Inherent code performance advantages of D over C?

[deadalnix]

On Sunday, 8 December 2013 at 05:37:09 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Or maybe this is just another one of those cultural old age 
> indicators?
> Has the term "refactoring" shifted to mean "variable renaming" 
> among the
> younger coders these days? Genuine question. I'm baffled that 
> these two
> things could even remotely be considered similar things.
>

Refactoring is changing your code, without changing what it does. 
It is done in order to make your code easier to understand, more 
maintainable, more testable, or whatever.

Both extracting some code into a function and renaming a variable 
are refactoring operations.