LDC 1.25.0

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 2/21/21 1:26 PM, kinke wrote:
> Glad to announce LDC 1.25 - some highlights:
> 
> - Based on D 2.095.1.
> - LLVM for prebuilt packages bumped to v11.0.1; support added for LLVM 
> 11.1 and upcoming 12.0.
> - Profile/trace LDC invocations via --ftime-trace.
> - New Windows installer and native 'Apple silicon' package.
> - New experimental template emission scheme for -linkonce-templates. 
> This option can significantly accelerate compilation times for optimized 
> builds (e.g., 56% faster on my box when compiling the optimized Phobos 
> unittests).

This is cool! Can you describe what it means? The option name isn't 
telling me anything obvious.

> 
> Full release log and downloads: 
> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.25.0
> 
> Thanks to all contributors & sponsors!

That's a first -- I haven't seen a 2.095.1 announcement yet (just the beta)

-Steve