LLVM Clang 6.0 Benchmarks On AMD's EPYC Yield Some Performance Benefits

LLVM Clang 6.0 Benchmarks On AMD's EPYC Yield Some Performance Benefits: With LLVM 6.0 being branched this week and that marking the end of feature development on this next compiler update before its stable debut in February, here are some benchmarks of the very latest LLVM Clang 6.0 compiler on AMD's EPYC 7601 32-core / 64-thread processor as we see how well the AMD Zen "znver1" tuning is working out.