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> From what I can tell LLVM has a simpler codebase so that's a point in its favor That may have been true at one point, but I don't think it is any more.
by ori_b 7y ago
> From what I can tell LLVM has a simpler codebase so that's a point in its favor
That may have been true at one point, but I don't think it is any more.
- meruru 7y agoAre you referring to the first or the second part of that sentence?
- ori_b 7y agoThe simplicity of the LLVM source. Edited for clarity.
- Conan_Kudo 7y agoLLVM sources are equally, if not more so, complicated than GCC's sources. To make matters worse, LLVM functionality is broken up into dozens of libraries, so there's a fair bit more tracing that needs to be done to understand what's going on in Clang vs GCC.