LDC 0.16.0 has been released!

Sat Oct 24 20:22:38 PDT 2015

On Saturday, 24 October 2015 at 15:40:41 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> On Saturday, 24 October 2015 at 03:11:30 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> The associated travis CI run that finally went green with ldc 
>> 0.16.0 beta 2 took about as long as the other D compilers, so 
>> performance of ldc-compiled ddmd seems comparable:
>>
>> https://travis-ci.org/D-Programming-Language/dmd/builds/85017266
>
> That's surprising given that many were worried that switching 
> to ddmd would slow compilation speeds down by at least 30%. 
> Also, this does not seem to be using any of ldc's optimization 
> flags.

Well, all three of those are ddmd: the only difference is whether 
ddmd is compiled by dmd, gdc, or ldc.  The 30% measurement was 
based on comparing the previously completely C++ dmd with ddmd:

http://forum.dlang.org/post/55C9F77B.8050807@dawg.eu