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GCC 11 vs. LLVM Clang 12 Performance On The Intel Core i9 11900K Is A Heated Race

Both compilers these days offer relatively strong link-time optimization (LTO) support with better reliability than years/releases ago where there were more often build issues.

C-Ray is still one of the code-bases that performs particularly well with GCC at the higher optimization levels compared to Clang.