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All the new fangled optimizations are being done on LLVM, Sanitizers were LLVM first etc. GCC target support remains incredibly impressive of course, but that'
by mhh__ 6y ago
All the new fangled optimizations are being done on LLVM, Sanitizers were LLVM first etc.
GCC target support remains incredibly impressive of course, but that's not the sexy stuff.
Also I regard GNU's success in userspace as mainly stemming from the 90s, my comment was regarding roughly post- somewhere in the 2000s
- simion314 6y agoIs that LLVM success good for society or for the giant SV companies? LLVM is still not a clear winner in performance or supported platforms.
- mhh__ 6y agoLLVM is better technology but the fact that it isn't copyleft pains me (for one). Whereas with GCC you kind of have to upstream (making it easy or not), with LLVM you can upstream stuff you want other people to work with (or cynically, maintain) but keep relatively private things with your secret sauce (I don't think Apple's M1 patches for LLVM are upstreamed).