LDC 0.16.0 has been released!

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Sunday, 25 October 2015 at 03:22:39 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Saturday, 24 October 2015 at 15:40:41 UTC, Jack Stouffer 
> wrote:
>> That's surprising given that many were worried that switching 
>> to ddmd would slow compilation speeds down by at least 30%. 
>> Also, this does not seem to be using any of ldc's optimization 
>> flags.
>
> Well, all three of those are ddmd: the only difference is 
> whether ddmd is compiled by dmd, gdc, or ldc.  The 30% 
> measurement was based on comparing the previously completely 
> C++ dmd with ddmd:
>
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/55C9F77B.8050807@dawg.eu

Whoops, posted before I was done writing.

The Travis CI run combines the time spent compiling ddmd, time 
spent compiling the druntime/phobos tests, and then running the 
tests.  The original 30% comparison was only for time spent 
compiling a D codebase, like phobos or vibe.d.

It's possible ldc takes longer to compile ddmd, but then the 
resulting ddmd takes less time to compile phobos.  That would 
have to be separated out.  It's also possible the backend is not 
the issue and the D frontend itself is slower than the C++ 
frontend, in which case using ldc to compile ddmd won't make a 
difference.