LLVM Clang vs. GCC On Fedora 21 With A High-End Xeon

The latest weekend benchmarks up on Phoronix are comparing Fedora 21's GCC and LLVM Clang code compilers to see what's the fastest for an Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 rig with sixteen threads.

Out of curiosity for GCC vs. Clang on Fedora 21 in its current development state and some more workloads to stress our new high-end Intel Xeon hardware courteously supplied by MSI, I ran some compiler benchmarks using the GCC and Clang currently shipped by the Fedora 21 repository. GCC is, of course, the default C/C++ compiler for Fedora. The version used for Fedora 21 are GCC 4.9.2 and LLVM Clang 3.4.2.

With the Xeon E5-1680v3 running with the MSI X99S SLI PLUS motherboard I ran a range of C/C++ benchmarks. Those interested in the results can find the full showdown via OpenBenchmarking.org.
The results were mixed but understandable given Clang's continued lack of OpenMP support in mainline and other differences noted in previous Phoronix compiler benchmark articles. Clang continued to dominate GCC on compile times. See all of the results on OpenBenchmarking.org or run your own compiler comparison with the Phoronix Test Suite.

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