LDC 0.12.0 has been released

[Kai Nacke]

On Saturday, 26 October 2013 at 02:21:37 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> The explanation is quite simple. LLVM understand C and C++ 
> runtime. It doesn't understand D runtime (LDC is doing some 
> work in that regard, but it is still limited). So you see a 
> difference between C and C++ as some optimization will be done 
> in C/C++ (for instance heap to stack promotion) when it won't 
> be done in D.

While this is true in general I don't think that it explains the 
difference in the mentioned benchmark. A PRNG does not use too 
much of the C runtime.

I believe that the IR generated by LDC could be improved and that 
the difference in speed is caused by this.

Regards
Kai