LLVM Clang vs. GCC Compiler Comparison On Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

LLVM Clang vs. GCC Compiler Comparison On Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: When getting access to an assortment of new Intel Xeon E3 "Skylake" processors one of the first testing thoughts that came to mind were some fresh GCC vs. Clang benchmarks. So using the $600+ Xeon E3-1280 v5 processor running up to 4.0GHz, I carried out a comparison of the GCC and Clang compilers using the packaged versions being offered by Ubuntu 16.04, the Xenial Xerus.