LDC 0.17.0 has been released!

Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Sun Feb 14 13:22:41 PST 2016


On Sunday, 14 February 2016 at 20:55:14 UTC, y wrote:
> what is actually the difference on wheter i build with LLVM 3.5 
> or 3.8?
> in other words, what influence does the ldc version have?

This really depends on your target. For x86_64 the biggest 
difference is auto-vectorization with avx/avx2 which is better in 
later LLVM versions.
The non-X86 are usually more mature in later LLVM versions. E.g. 
for MIPS64 you should at least use LLVM 3.7.

Put into a simple rule:
- For X86 there is no big difference
- For non-X86 use the latest LLVM version

Regards,
Kai


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