LLVM 6.0 Is Being Branched In One Week, LLVM 7.0 Development To Begin

[phoronix]

Phoronix: LLVM 6.0 Is Being Branched In One Week, LLVM 7.0 Development To Begin

LLVM release manager Hans Wennborg is moving ahead with plans to branch the LLVM 6.0 code and its components earlier than anticipated...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVM-6.0-Branching-One-Week

[FishPls]

Sadly won't be making it to Ubuntu 18.04.

[tildearrow]

Little typo:

branching to llvm-dev>

[andrei_me]

Does LLVM being dragged until around march have any prejudice to someone? Don't know if it is a good/bad thing...

[theriddick]

Will LLVM6 affect the MESA/Radeon/AMDGPU/RADV performance if compiled with it VS using 4.9/5.0 or whatever is the standard now?

[Michael]

Will LLVM6 affect the MESA/Radeon/AMDGPU/RADV performance if compiled with it VS using 4.9/5.0 or whatever is the standard now?

For at least newer generations, yes very likely.

[baka0815]

I hope they'll fix bug 99923 on the freedesktop bug tracker. It would end a year of non-working HITMAN (2016) for me, but I don't believe in that because no progress has been made on that bug and no developer said anything (well Samuel Pitoiset chimed in in February be it looks like he lost interest fairly fast).
LLVM 3.9 was the last version working with HITMAN (2016) and it's broken since 4.0. :-(