Intel Ivy Bridge: GCC 4.8 vs. LLVM/Clang 3.2 SVN

Published on August 18, 2012
Written by Michael Larabel
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VP8 video encoding also had a slight benefit to the forthcoming version of the GNU Compiler Collection.

GCC 4.8 also ran slightly ahead with Himeno.

With 7-Zip compression, the latest Subversion code of LLVM/Clang is finally running ahead of GCC SVN on this x86 hardware.

The multi-threaded C-Ray ray-tracing performance was neck-and-neck between the two open-source compilers.

GCC wins for Smallpt since it's another program relying upon OpenMP where it's not currently supported by Apple's compiler.

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