LDC 1.5.0-beta1

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Monday, 23 October 2017 at 22:06:43 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
> Guillaume, can you try with building your own LTO version of 
> the standard library and do new measurements?
>
> Something like this should work:
> ```
> ldc-build-runtime --reset --dFlags="-flto=full" 
> BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF
>
> ldc2 -your-normal-compile-flags -flto=full 
> -L-L./ldc-build-runtime.tmp/lib
> ```
>
> Use `--dFlags="-flto=full;-ar="` for now if you are using macOS 
> (will not be needed with the next beta).
>
> (you can try with `-flto=thin` too for much faster link times)
>
> Cheers,
>   Johan

So far my benchmark scripts are Windows-only so no LTO is 
available AFAIK. I can work on providing such measures (or any 
flags you want) on OSX in the future.