LLVM 8.0 Released With Cascade Lake Support, Better Diagnostics, More OpenMP/OpenCL

[phoronix]

Phoronix: LLVM 8.0 Released With Cascade Lake Support, Better Diagnostics, More OpenMP/OpenCL

After being delayed the better part of one month, LLVM 8.0 officially set sail this morning...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...M-8.0-Released

[wizard69]

Finally it ships.

This is makes me wonder if there are any distros built entirely with CLang/LLVM? I seem to remember an ARM port trying to do so.

[brad0]

Finally it ships.

This is makes me wonder if there are any distros built entirely with CLang/LLVM? I seem to remember an ARM port trying to do so.

OpenMandriva

FreeBSD / OpenBSD as well.

[Royi]

What about it’s vectorization engine?
Have they improved it to Intel ICC level?