Inherent code performance advantages of D over C?

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On Tuesday, 10 December 2013 at 20:36:22 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 12/10/2013 1:01 PM, Marco Leise wrote:
>> Am Tue, 10 Dec 2013 00:21:16 -0800
>> schrieb "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx>:
>>
>>> D may not get you all the way to absolute 
>>> every-last-drop-from-the-CPU
>>> performance
>>
>> I firmly disagree.
>
> Especially since if you write C code in D, you will get exactly 
> C results.

I think it is better to rephrase it as "writing C code in D is 
possible but even less convenient than in C".