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> Why is it reasonable to expect that proprietary synthesis tools are going to be better than an open source one? That definitely was not the case, long term, w
by badamp 7y ago
> Why is it reasonable to expect that proprietary synthesis tools are going to be better than an open source one? That definitely was not the case, long term, with proprietary C compilers of yesteryears. LLVM is the future, and mostly because of LLVM-IR.
Lol citation needed. Last I checked the performance oriented commercial closed source C/C++ compilers still outperform Clang and LLVM. And so does gcc for most cases for that matter.
- ncmncm 7y agoClue: Gcc is Free Software too. New languages typically are not implemented with Gcc, though. So, long term, LLVM probably wins.
- badamp 7y agoI don’t follow. Though gcc still trumps clang in some areas, neither gcc nor llvm beat the commercial compilers like ICC in a wide range of workloads.. obviously there is still a market for ICC and AOCC. The original point was that open sourcing would necessarily lead to better performing tooling. And again to that I maintain... citation needed.