DMD 1.030 and 2.014 releases

[janderson]

Walter Bright wrote:
> These contain a new way of building that I've wanted to do for a long 
> time. dmd can now build libraries directly, without writing out object 
> files or invoking the librarian. This accelerates library builds by a 
> whopping factor of 3! Besides, it doesn't litter your directories with 
> pointless object files.
> 
> The library build option has another major coolness feature - before, 
> one module compiles to one object file. With library build, one source 
> file can compile to multiple object files. This cuts down on executable 
> bloat from pulling in object files with irrelevant stuff in them.
> 
> Another build improvement is when multiple modules are compiled at the 
> same time to build an executable, only one object file is created with 
> the generated code for all modules combined into it. This speeds 
> linking, and also eliminates pointless file detritus.
> 
> No, having dmd incorporate the linking is probably not going to happen 
> :-(. Librarians are so simple, though, that this is a big win.
> 
> Yes, both 1.0 and 2.0 dmd's get this (it doesn't affect the language).
> 
> Another cool new feature is the dmd -man switch. Try it out! Lots of new 
> library stuff, bugfixes, and Andrei has completely redone rdmd.
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html
> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.030.zip
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html
> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.014.zip

Sweet!