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Old September 15th, 2012, 01:35
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I've been reading a lot about llvm lately and was wondering if it would be a better default compiler than gcc on FreeBSD? Are there any major advantages with llvm over gcc other than objective c? I remember reading somewhere that in 9.-RC1 it has better objective c support.
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Old September 15th, 2012, 02:30
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I have played with clang 3.1 on 9.1 pre-release. Compilation is faster than gcc 4.2.1, and the diagnostics, code checking and static analysis are far better (I normally compile my stuff -std=c99 -Wall -Werror). Naturally, this causes problems for code that plays fast and loose. In my limited experience the generated code still runs very slightly slower than the code gcc generates. I expect that will continue to improve.
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I keep hearing that llvm is faster at compiling that gcc. but how much faster is it really?
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Old September 15th, 2012, 05:43
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Some benchmarks that were recently posted on the mailing lists: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/f...er/036380.html
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