dmd codegen improvements

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/16/2015 7:16 AM, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> On 28/08/2015 22:59, Walter Bright wrote:
>> People told me I couldn't write a C compiler, then told me I couldn't
>> write a C++ compiler. I'm still the only person who has ever implemented
>> a complete C++ compiler (C++98). Then they all (100%) laughed at me for
>> starting D, saying nobody would ever use it.
>>
>> My whole career is built on stepping over people who told me I couldn't
>> do anything and wouldn't amount to anything.
>
> So your whole career is fundamentally based not on bringing value to the
> software world, but rather merely proving people wrong? That amounts to living
> your professional life in thrall of other people's validation, and it's not
> commendable at all. It's a waste of your potential.
>
> It is only worthwhile to prove people wrong when it brings you a considerable
> amount of either monetary resources or clout - and more so than you would have
> got doing something else with your time.
>
> It's not clear to me that was always the case throughout your career... was it?

Wow, such an interpretation never occurred to me. I will reiterate that I worked 
on things that I believed had value and nobody else did. I.e. I did not need 
validation from others.