LDC 1.18.0-beta1

[Martin Tschierschke]

On Thursday, 12 September 2019 at 23:49:04 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Glad to announce the first beta for LDC 1.18:
>
> * Based on D 2.088.0+ (yesterday's stable).
> * Bundled dub upgraded to v1.17.0+ with improved LDC support, 
> incl. cross-compilation.
> * Init symbols of zero-initialized structs are no longer 
> emitted.
> * druntime: DMD-compatible {load,store}Unaligned and prefetch 
> added to core.simd.
> * JIT improvements, incl. multi-threaded compilation.
>
> Full release log and downloads: 
> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.18.0-beta1
>
> Please help test, and thanks to all contributors!

Great!

Can you please give (again?) a link or a more detailed 
description of the JIT, explaining some use cases?

Regards mt.