On 18 August 2015 at 23:25, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
On 8/18/2015 1:47 PM, deadalnix wrote:
Realistically, D does not have the man power required to reach the same level of
optimization, and have many higher impact task to spend that manpower on.

dmd also does a sludge of patterns. I'm just looking for a few that would significantly impact the result.

Speculative devirtualization?  http://hubicka.blogspot.de/2014/02/devirtualization-in-c-part-4-analyzing.html