On Sunday, 5 April 2015 at 05:04:52 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 04:31:06PM -0700, Walter Bright via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 4/4/2015 1:48 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>Besides, even if you could, you're just one person, whereas
>gdc/ldc
>have a much larger number of contributors, some of whose
>specialty is
>optimization. Do you realistically think you can
>singlehandedly
>outdo all of them?
I did for decades, until the early 2000's or so when I began
spending
all my time on the front end.
[...]
Well, yes, that's because we need you more on DMDFE than on the
backend,
and that's why there will probably never be enough time for you
to do
everything you need to do with the backend. And that's why the
backend
will probably never be as good as gdc/ldc.
T
You can't reason people out of what the haven't been reasoned
into.
