VS is more responsive when running Git operations.
Debugging large solutions with /debug:fastlink PDBs
is more robust. Changes in the PDB/DIA lead to reduced latency and a
30% reduction in heap memory consumption in the VS debugger that used to
cause crashes.
C++ compiler bugfixes:
Fix for the SSA optimizer incorrectly sinking a function call past a store to a variable used in a __finally handler.
Fix for the SSA optimizer sometimes incorrectly analyzing memory loads from locations with negative offsets.
Fix for the optimizer incorrectly transforming a pre-incremented
loop into a post-incremented loop. This was found compiling the ICU project.
Microsoft bumped up the Java™ Development Kit 8 to Update 172 (JDK version 8u172).
