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Re:Even more fun with building and benchmarking Firefox with... by ajuc on Monday December 31, 2018 @01:42PM (#18796142)
Clang has much better error reporting and warnings. It's maybe not enough to switch completely, but worth it to compile in both compilers to catch more bugs. Then you can still release the binaries that are faster and throw away the binaries that are slower.
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Re:Even more fun with building and benchmarking Firefox with... by loeg on Monday December 31, 2018 @05:11PM (#18797373)
Firefox isn't moving to build with both, though — it's moving to Clang exclusively. It will not get the best of both worlds.
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Re:Even more fun with building and benchmarking Firefox with... by mrich on Sunday January 06, 2019 @06:48AM (#18837855)
The difference isn't that large anymore. gcc has also implemented color diagnostics and caret highlighting, and they have continuously added new helpful warnings, e.g. the upcoming -Winit-list-lifetime in gcc 9 (nothing comparable available for clang)
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