LDC 0.15.0 beta1 released! Please help test!

[Kai Nacke via digitalmars-d-ldc]

On Monday, 24 November 2014 at 11:37:38 UTC, Daniel N wrote:
> 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?

Yes, the compiler is itself a debug build. I won't change this 
until LLVM 3.6 is released (this LLVM is required for the msvc 
build).

Regards,
Kai