GCC 8.0 vs. LLVM Clang 6.0 On AMD EPYC

GCC 8.0 vs. LLVM Clang 6.0 On AMD EPYC: At the beginning of January I posted some early LLVM Clang 6.0 benchmarks on AMD EPYC while in this article is comparing the tentative Clang 6.0 performance to that of the in-development GCC 8.0. Both compilers are now into their feature freeze and this testing looked at the performance of generated binaries both for generic x86_64 as well as being tuned for AMD's Zen "znver1" microarchitecture.