Google Now Uses Clang As Their Production Compiler For Chrome Linux Builds

[-MacNuke-]

Oh no!!! Google Chrome is unsable now because of that. It is sooooo sloooooooow right now after reading this news.

[paulpach]

What's with the conspiracy theory?

I smell something fishy here - like they withhold some important information about the decision but let's leave it to them.

What's with the conspiracy theory? They should be able to use whichever compiler suits their needs best for whatever reason they want.

[birdie]

Previously though Google engineers have internally used Clang for pre-production builds due to Clang's faster compilation times and better diagnostics than GCC.

Bullocks. What matters to the user is performance and performance only (stability too, but GCC rarely miscompiles the code and such errors are usually fixed in a timely manner).

Google has thousands of servers so the compiler performance is like the last thing on Earth they care about.

I smell something fishy here - like they withhold some important information about the decision but let's leave it to them.

[pal666]

isn't it crazy that they are changing gcc 4.6 instead of 4.9 ? it reminds me of traditional apple comparisons of clang against their gcc 4.2

[curaga]

Gcc 5 should be getting the identical code detection. Does anyone know if clang supports it?

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Google Now Uses Clang As Their Production Compiler For Chrome Linux Builds

For just over one month Google's Chrome/Chromium team has been using Clang as their production compiler on Linux in place of GCC...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTg0MTk