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Re:Toward _FORTIFY_SOURCE Parity Between Clang and GCC by voldacar on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @08:54PM (#22314675)
GCC still generates faster binaries (on average across a wide set of benchmarks) than clang as of last year
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Re:Toward _FORTIFY_SOURCE Parity Between Clang and GCC by big_chungus on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @10:16PM (#22315051)
Not that much faster. Most benchmarks find that GCC is a little ahead, but not much:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=gcc9-cla...

https://medium.com/@alitech_2017/gcc-vs-clang-llvm-an-in-dep...

Remember that these are both Linux benchmarks; GCC on windows is a bit sketchy with MinGW. Things can usually be made to work, but Clang is the only real competitor to MSVC (unless you're counting Intel's crazy-expensive offering, which is not intended for general use).

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Re:Toward _FORTIFY_SOURCE Parity Between Clang and GCC by loeg on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @09:31PM (#22314833)
Better debuginfo (still), too.
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