It looks like your D backend generates string literals with literal null bytes--this is unnecessary as string literals are already null terminated. (Documented here: http://dlang.org/interfaceToC.html (see final bullet under "Calling C Functions")
Also, it looks like loading each extension requires scanning all available extension names, e.g. loading 25 extensions requires 25 linear scans of the extension list. You might consider caching and sorting if the number of extensions requested is more than a handful.
