LDC 0.15.0 beta1 released! Please help test!

Mon Nov 24 03:37:37 PST 2014

On Friday, 14 November 2014 at 22:05:29 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> Even more exciting this release comes with the first official 
> development snapshot(!) of a Win64 compiler targetting the MS C 
> Runtime.

I was curious to see the differences between MSVC and MinGW.
(I ran strip on the MinGW binary)

Version | Size  | Compilation Time | Null-I/O | Full-I/O |
MSVC    | 715k  |    1m48.78s      | 0.234s   |   1.139  |
MinGW   | 1825k |      14.25s      | 0.296s   |   1.201  |

This is a closed source app which mainly uses regex and I/O, thus 
I also made a test with as little I/O as possible.

Is the msvc compiler itself a debug build?