On Friday, 3 November 2017 at 17:17:04 UTC, kinke wrote:
Hi everyone,
on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to finally officially
announce LDC 1.5. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:
* Based on D 2.075.1.
* Polished LLVM 5.0 support (now also used for the prebuilt
release packages).
* Prebuilt ARM-Linux package available again.
* New command-line option `-linker` and ~25 new advanced ones
for codegen fine-tuning.
* Bugfixes, as always.
Full release log and downloads:
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.5.0
Thanks to all contributors!
[LDC master is at v2.076.1, so LDC 1.6 won't take long.]
Great work by the LDC team! Thanks to all the LTO work in 1.4 and
1.5, the Travis-CI builds of the eBay TSV utilities are LTO
enabled for Phobos & Druntime as well as the application code.
This is for both Linux and OS X builds. Couldn't do that before
the LDC 1.5 release.
The OS X executables are materially faster with the end-to-end
LTO support. I haven't benchmarked the Linux versions yet. It
would be very interesting to have get benchmark numbers from
other apps, especially those making material use of phobos.
