> Does gcc use LLVM anywhere under the hood or it has its own code generation and optimization pipeline? No it doesn't use LLVM > How does it stack in compariso

> Does gcc use LLVM anywhere under the hood or it has its own code generation and optimization pipeline? No it doesn't use LLVM > How does it stack in comparison to LLVM? Well it support more targets then LLVM and in most cases it generates similar if not better executable.