LDC 0.14.0 alpha1 released! Please help test!

[John via digitalmars-d-ldc]

On Saturday, 2 August 2014 at 23:22:35 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> What kind of executable sizes are you seeing? Like, what's the 
> size for a hello world with writeln on a 64 bit Ubuntu?

helloworld.d with writeln
dmd 472 KB
ldc 286 KB

stopwatch example from 
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_datetime.html#.StopWatch
dmd  1.1 MB
ldc  322 KB

The ldc version of stopwatch runs more than 10x faster.

And the Average times displayed by the stopwatch is crazy:
(dmd) Average time: 4000.00 hnsecs (approx)
(ldc) Average time:    1.00 hnsecs (approx)