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LDC 1.34.0-beta2
Aug 17, 2023
kinke
Aug 17, 2023
Guillaume Piolat
Aug 18, 2023
drug007
Aug 26, 2023
jmh530
Aug 26, 2023
Guillaume Piolat
August 17, 2023

Glad to announce the second beta for LDC 1.34. Major change since beta1: LLVM 16 support, incl. v16.0.6 for the prebuilt packages.

Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.34.0-beta2

Please help test, and thanks to all contributors & sponsors!

August 17, 2023

On Thursday, 17 August 2023 at 18:24:41 UTC, kinke wrote:

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Glad to announce the second beta for LDC 1.34. Major change since beta1: LLVM 16 support, incl. v16.0.6 for the prebuilt packages.

Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.34.0-beta2

Please help test, and thanks to all contributors & sponsors!

Just benchmarked 7 different LDC versions on a complex signal processing task.
(mean of 77 measure for each result, arch x86_64, -mattr=+sse3, Win11):

LDC version Speed vs baseline LLVM version Binary size Release Date
ldc-1.34.0-beta2.dll 0% (baseline) LLVM 16.0.6 3554 kb 17th Aug 2023
ldc-1.33.0 -0.72% LLVM 15.0.7 3578 kb 23th Jul 2023
ldc-1.32.2 -1% LLVM 15.0.7 3576 kb 12th May 2023
ldc-1.31.0 -2.6% LLVM 14.0.3 3569 kb 11th Feb 2023
ldc-1.30.0 -2.8% LLVM 14.0.3 3566 kb 20th Jul 2022
ldc-1.29.0 -2.7% LLVM 13.0.1 3555 kb 8th Apr 2022
ldc-1.28.0 -3.6% LLVM 12.0.1 3569 kb 19th Oct 2021
August 18, 2023
18.08.2023 01:32, Guillaume Piolat пишет:
> On Thursday, 17 August 2023 at 18:24:41 UTC, kinke wrote:
>> Glad to announce the second beta for LDC 1.34. Major change since beta1: LLVM 16 support, incl. v16.0.6 for the prebuilt packages.
>>
>> Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.34.0-beta2
>>
>> Please help test, and thanks to all contributors & sponsors!
> 
> Just benchmarked 7 different LDC versions on a complex signal processing task.
> (mean of 77 measure for each result, arch x86_64, -mattr=+sse3, Win11):
> 
> | LDC version | Speed vs baseline | LLVM version | Binary size | Release Date |
> | ------- | ------------------- | ------------ | -------- | -- |
> | ldc-1.34.0-beta2.dll | 0% (baseline) | LLVM 16.0.6 | 3554 kb | 17th Aug 2023 |
> | ldc-1.33.0 | -0.72% | LLVM 15.0.7 |3578 kb   | 23th Jul 2023 |
> | ldc-1.32.2 | -1%   |LLVM 15.0.7 |3576 kb   | 12th May 2023 |
> | ldc-1.31.0 | -2.6% |LLVM 14.0.3 |3569 kb   | 11th Feb 2023 |
> | ldc-1.30.0 | -2.8% |LLVM 14.0.3 |3566 kb   |  20th Jul 2022 |
> | ldc-1.29.0 | -2.7% |LLVM 13.0.1 |3555 kb   |  8th Apr 2022 |
> | ldc-1.28.0 | -3.6% |LLVM 12.0.1 |3569 kb   |  19th Oct 2021 |
> 
> 

Let me improve it a little bit (some form of procrastination)

|     LDC     | Speed vs | LLVM version | Binary  | Release Date  |
|   version   | baseline |              | size    |               |
| ----------- | -------- | ------------ | ------- | ------------- |
| ldc-1.34.0- | 0%       | LLVM 16.0.6  | 3554 kb | 17th Aug 2023 |
|  beta2.dll  |          |              |         |               |
| ldc-1.33.0  | -0.72%   | LLVM 15.0.7  | 3578 kb | 23th Jul 2023 |
| ldc-1.32.2  | -1%      | LLVM 15.0.7  | 3576 kb | 12th May 2023 |
| ldc-1.31.0  | -2.6%    | LLVM 14.0.3  | 3569 kb | 11th Feb 2023 |
| ldc-1.30.0  | -2.8%    | LLVM 14.0.3  | 3566 kb | 20th Jul 2022 |
| ldc-1.29.0  | -2.7%    | LLVM 13.0.1  | 3555 kb | 8th Apr 2022  |
| ldc-1.28.0  | -3.6%    | LLVM 12.0.1  | 3569 kb | 19th Oct 2021 |

*baseline is ldc-1.34.0-beta2.dll
August 26, 2023

On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 13:40:54 UTC, drug007 wrote:

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18.08.2023 01:32, Guillaume Piolat пишет:

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[...]

Let me improve it a little bit (some form of procrastination)

[...]

Sorry, but what are you improving here?

August 26, 2023

On Saturday, 26 August 2023 at 14:29:32 UTC, jmh530 wrote:

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On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 13:40:54 UTC, drug007 wrote:

>

18.08.2023 01:32, Guillaume Piolat пишет:

>

[...]

Let me improve it a little bit (some form of procrastination)

[...]

Sorry, but what are you improving here?

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