Re: LDC 1.8.0-beta1

2018-02-17 Thread 9il via Digitalmars-d-announce

On Friday, 16 February 2018 at 22:30:35 UTC, kinke wrote:

Hi everyone,

on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce the first beta 
for LDC 1.8. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:


* Based on D 2.078.3.
* New switch `-link-defaultlib-shared` to link against shared 
druntime/Phobos.

* Plugins support, compatible with existing Clang plugins.
* Support for LLVM IR-based PGO as alternative to existing 
(AST-based) PGO.

* Basic support for LLVM XRay instrumentation.

Full release log and downloads: 
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.8.0-beta1


Thanks to all contributors!


Thank you for the fast beta!


Re: LDC 1.8.0-beta1

2018-02-17 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce

On 2/16/2018 2:30 PM, kinke wrote:

on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce the first beta for LDC 1.8.


Congratulations!


LDC 1.8.0-beta1

2018-02-16 Thread kinke via Digitalmars-d-announce

Hi everyone,

on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce the first beta 
for LDC 1.8. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:


* Based on D 2.078.3.
* New switch `-link-defaultlib-shared` to link against shared 
druntime/Phobos.

* Plugins support, compatible with existing Clang plugins.
* Support for LLVM IR-based PGO as alternative to existing 
(AST-based) PGO.

* Basic support for LLVM XRay instrumentation.

Full release log and downloads: 
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.8.0-beta1


Thanks to all contributors!