as someone who uses both Clang and GCC to cover eachothers weaknesses, as far as I can tell both LLVM and GCC are hopelessly beastly codebases in terms of raw s

as someone who uses both Clang and GCC to cover eachothers weaknesses, as far as I can tell both LLVM and GCC are hopelessly beastly codebases in terms of raw size and their complexity. I think that's just what happens when people desire to build an "everything compiler". From what I gathered, LLVM has a lot of C++ specific design choices in its IR language anyway. I think I'd count that as baggage. I personally don't think one is better than the other. Sometimes clang produces faster code, sometimes gcc. I haven't really dealt with compiler bugs from either. They compile my projects at the same speed. Clang is better at certain analyses, gcc better at certain others.