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Re:GCC-Rust: Rust frontend for GCC by kyllo on Sunday December 08, 2019 @02:55AM (#21734820)
Better how? There are plenty of benchmarks showing that gcc's optimizations are more performant than llvm's.
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Re:GCC-Rust: Rust frontend for GCC by saagarjha on Sunday December 08, 2019 @03:02AM (#21734848)
And here are plenty that support the converse ;) I don't think there's anything that points to one being definitively better than the other in performance.
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Re:GCC-Rust: Rust frontend for GCC by vunie on Sunday December 08, 2019 @09:55AM (#21736130)
>And here are plenty that support the converse

Could you site sources please?

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Re:GCC-Rust: Rust frontend for GCC by StreamBright on Sunday December 08, 2019 @03:11AM (#21734876)
Like the one where they turned off null checks?

https://joelaro.wordpress.com/2015/09/30/gcc-optimization-fd...

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Re:GCC-Rust: Rust frontend for GCC by wumpus on Sunday December 08, 2019 @03:33AM (#21734920)
Every performant compiler on the SPECcpu benchmarks does this.
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Re:GCC-Rust: Rust frontend for GCC by saagarjha on Sunday December 08, 2019 @03:18AM (#21734894)
Clang has this too.
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Re:GCC-Rust: Rust frontend for GCC by StreamBright on Sunday December 08, 2019 @10:02AM (#21736179)
Not as much as GCC.

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90949

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Re:GCC-Rust: Rust frontend for GCC by saagarjha on Sunday December 08, 2019 @03:58PM (#21738263)
That’s a bug, not an optimization.
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