LDC 1.34.0-beta2

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Thursday, 17 August 2023 at 18:24:41 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Glad to announce the second beta for LDC 1.34. Major change 
> since beta1: LLVM 16 support, incl. v16.0.6 for the prebuilt 
> packages.
>
> Full release log and downloads: 
> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.34.0-beta2
>
> Please help test, and thanks to all contributors & sponsors!

Just benchmarked 7 different LDC versions on a complex signal 
processing task.
(mean of 77 measure for each result, arch x86_64, -mattr=+sse3, 
Win11):

| LDC version | Speed vs baseline | LLVM version | Binary size | 
Release Date |
| ------- | ------------------- | ------------ | -------- | -- |
| ldc-1.34.0-beta2.dll | 0% (baseline) | LLVM 16.0.6 | 3554 kb   
| 17th Aug 2023 |
| ldc-1.33.0 | -0.72% | LLVM 15.0.7 |3578 kb   | 23th Jul 2023 |
| ldc-1.32.2 | -1%   |LLVM 15.0.7 |3576 kb   | 12th May 2023 |
| ldc-1.31.0 | -2.6% |LLVM 14.0.3 |3569 kb   | 11th Feb 2023 |
| ldc-1.30.0 | -2.8% |LLVM 14.0.3 |3566 kb   |  20th Jul 2022 |
| ldc-1.29.0 | -2.7% |LLVM 13.0.1 |3555 kb   |  8th Apr 2022 |
| ldc-1.28.0 | -3.6% |LLVM 12.0.1 |3569 kb   |  19th Oct 2021 |