GCC 12.1 Released (D v2.100-rc.1)

[Witold Baryluk]

On Friday, 6 May 2022 at 11:57:47 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am proud to announce another major GCC release, 12.1.
>

Thank you so much Ian on your hard and dedicated work on GDC. It 
is my goto default compiler for D on Debian Linux. (I use ldc and 
sometimes dmd sporadically, but only for testing compatibility).

Glad to have newer GCC backend, frontend up to date with DMD, all 
the Phobos work, and various architectures supports landing!

> Update the compilers on the GDC compiler explorer site to 
> version 12, and other continued maintenance on the testing 
> infrastructure, the costs of which are now covered by the kind 
> sponsors of GDC. If you are interested in helping support the 
> on-going development of GDC, you can do so by making a donation 
> to the D Language Foundation.

Good you mentioned that! I was not aware of the sponsorship 
program, and now that I know, I gladly will chip in (well, just 
did it moments ago). For testing infrastructure, I would suggest 
tracking compilation speed and memory usage and output binary 
size of GDC on amd64 and aarch64 at least (to detect compiler 
getting slower, or due to growth of Phobos / druntime), and 
having a public website showing this data. Something like this 
maybe https://fast.vlang.io/


Cheers.