GCC vs. Clang On POWER8 Is A Competitive Compiler Match

GCC was noticeably faster than Clang at FLAC audio encoding on PowerPC 64-bit.

GCC also had a small but measurable win for the OpenSSL benchmark.

The results were too close to call for the PostgreSQL when factoring in the deviation in the results.

The results were a draw for the Apache web server benchmark.

Overall, these POWER8 compiler benchmarks were quite interesting and was a fun test of the Talos Secure Workstation. You can dig through the compiler benchmark data further over on OpenBenchmarking.org.