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Just as a naive consumer of its facilities, I find LLVM produces binaries from C and ObjC code which are smaller and faster than their GCC equivalents. I'm atte
by m0wfo 15y ago
Just as a naive consumer of its facilities, I find LLVM produces binaries from C and ObjC code which are smaller and faster than their GCC equivalents. I'm attempting to write my own front-end as well, which is easier than I had expected. I don't care what the black box does, c.f. "The user doesn't care"(TM).
- ori_b 15y agoGCC is still marginally smaller and faster: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=gcc_46_llvm29&num=2 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=gcc_4...
- m0wfo 15y agoIMHO, YMMV, etc. Oh man it's so easy to wind up HN kids with anecdotes.
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- oopsdude 15y agoThat link has 14 benchmarks across 5 platforms. What's your anecdote/evidence theshold?
- nspragmatic 15y agoThe parent was referring to their own anecdote, not the link's benchmarks.
- wmf 15y agoNo one is complaining about using LLVM they way it's supposed to be used. The problem is that LLVM has been promoted for use cases that it totally sucks for (JIT, portable bitcode).