GCC 13 vs. Clang 17 Compiler Benchmarks, Early Clang 18 & GCC 14 Development Benchmarks

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 28 December 2023 at 07:27 AM EST. Page 4 of 8. 13 Comments.
WebP Image Encode benchmark with settings of Encode Settings: Default. Clang 17.0.2 was the fastest.
WebP Image Encode benchmark with settings of Encode Settings: Quality 100. Clang 17.0.2 was the fastest.
WebP Image Encode benchmark with settings of Encode Settings: Quality 100, Highest Compression. Clang 17.0.2 was the fastest.
TSCP benchmark with settings of AI Chess Performance. Clang 18 23 Dec was the fastest.

In some of the WebP benchmarks as well as TSCP, the Clang-built binaries were much faster on this AMD Zen 4 workstation.

John The Ripper benchmark with settings of Test: bcrypt. Clang 17.0.2 was the fastest.
John The Ripper benchmark with settings of Test: WPA PSK. GCC 14 23 Dec was the fastest.
John The Ripper benchmark with settings of Test: Blowfish. Clang 18 23 Dec was the fastest.
GraphicsMagick benchmark with settings of Operation: Swirl. GCC 13.2 was the fastest.
GraphicsMagick benchmark with settings of Operation: Sharpen. GCC 13.2 was the fastest.
GraphicsMagick benchmark with settings of Operation: Enhanced. GCC 13.2 was the fastest.
GraphicsMagick benchmark with settings of Operation: Noise-Gaussian. GCC 13.2 was the fastest.
GraphicsMagick benchmark with settings of Operation: HWB Color Space. GCC 13.2 was the fastest.

GCC had some nice showings in some of the GraphicsMagick and John The Ripper OpenMP-threaded benchmarks.

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