LLVM Clang 3.5 Brings Some Compiler Performance Improvements

Compile times appear a bit slower with LLVM Clang 3.5, but they still hold a big advantage over the GCC compile times.

C-Ray, the multi-threaded ray-tracer that always tends to be interesting for compiler tests, is slightly faster with Clang 3.5 on this core-avx-i system.

There might be regressions with FLAC/LAME audio encoding with the new compiler infrastructure.

Well, that's that for our Ivy Bridge LLVM/Clang testing. There are some performance improvements shown by this testing of LLVM Clang 3.5 but in a few workloads the performance was slightly lower. Stay tuned to Phoronix as our open-source compiler benchmarking continues.