Ready for release - no speed regressions on static binary

Author: pjotrp

RELEASE-NOTES.md

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 ## ChangeLog v0.8.2 (2022....)
 
-+ Purged lz4 sources if favour of using the lz4 dependency (the Debian
-  library appears to be complete
++ Slightly faster static sambamba with ldc2 1.27+LLVM 11.
++ Purged lz4 sources in favour of using the lz4 dependency (the Debian
+  library appears to be complete)
 + Fixed meson builds for Debian, see https://github.com/biod/sambamba/issues/484
   (thanks @atille)
 + Removed most ldc2 deprecation warnings

test/benchmark/stats.org

@@ -10,28 +10,27 @@ wget ftp://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/phase3/data/HG00100/alignment/HG00
 Processing an 841Mb BAM file.
 
 
-*** Penguin2
+*** Penguin2 56x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2683 v3 @ 2.00GHz, 256Gb
+
+Sambamba appears to be slightly faster between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2 thanks to ldc2 and LLVM updates.
 
 #+begin_src sh
 time ./sambamba-0.8.2 sort HG00100.chrom20.ILLUMINA.bwa.GBR.low_coverage.20130415.bam >
  /dev/null
 
-sambamba 0.8.2
- by Artem Tarasov and Pjotr Prins (C) 2012-2021
+sambamba 0.8.2 by Artem Tarasov and Pjotr Prins (C) 2012-2021
     LDC 1.27.1 / DMD v2.097.2 / LLVM11.0.0 / bootstrap LDC - the LLVM D compiler (1.27.1)
 
+real    0m18.636s
+user    3m47.704s
+sys     0m18.764s
 
-real    0m18.863s
-user    4m5.428s
-sys     0m20.552s
-
-sambamba 0.8.1
- by Artem Tarasov and Pjotr Prins (C) 2012-2021
+sambamba 0.8.1 by Artem Tarasov and Pjotr Prins (C) 2012-2021
     LDC 1.26.0 / DMD v2.096.1 / LLVM9.0.1 / bootstrap LDC - the LLVM D compiler (0.17.6)
 
-real    0m20.158s
-user    4m5.968s
-sys     0m20.212s
+real    0m19.045s
+user    3m50.088s
+sys     0m16.908s
 #+end_src
 
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