GCC vs. LLVM Clang vs. AOCC Compilers On AMD Threadripper

GCC vs. LLVM Clang vs. AOCC Compilers On AMD Threadripper: Given recent improvements to AMD Zen (znver1) with LLVM, the new AMD AOCC 1.2 compiler release, and GCC 8.1 having premiered just weeks ago, here is a fresh look at the performance of six different C/C++ code compilers when testing the performance of the resulting binaries on an AMD Threadripper 1950X system.