LLVM Clang 3.9.1, Clang 4.0 & GCC 6.3 With Intel's Clear Linux

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 18 April 2017 at 09:53 AM EDT. Page 3 of 4. 5 Comments.
Clear Linux April 2017 Compiler Tests

Clang 4.0 does enough with TSCP to allow it to come out ahead of GCC 6.

Clear Linux April 2017 Compiler Tests
Clear Linux April 2017 Compiler Tests

GraphicsMagick does see some performance boosts when built by Clang 4.0, but still wasn't enough to beat GCC for this OpenMP-heavy workload.

Clear Linux April 2017 Compiler Tests
Clear Linux April 2017 Compiler Tests

Clang has seen some slowdowns in compile times recently but good to see it's back to getting on track compared to GCC.


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