Has anyone been successful using 64-bit release dmd on Windows?

[Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d]

After too many days of frustration to be able to count, I finally 
discovered what works for our builds: the debug build of 64-bit 
dmd on Windows.

When I build the release version from the Makefile or use digger, 
it produces a dmd binary that crashes randomly (bad enough) or 
compiles executables which themselves crash or run forever (much, 
much worse).

In all cases I installed dmd 2.080.0 from the installer then just 
copied over dmd.exe over the 32-bit one. I can't see what reason 
there'd be for the pre-built druntime and phobos binaries to not 
work just because dmd changed from 32-bit to 64-bit. But who 
knows.

This post is both a warning to the intrepid D programmers out 
there who'd rather not hit a 4GB RAM limit for no reason on 
Windows and also a question to see if anybody has been able to 
use 64-bit dmd on Windows like <insert deity here> intended.

Slightly slower builds are definitely better than ones that are 
flaky or hit gitlab's time limit.

Atila