Re:Six times faster than C
by eyegor on Thursday July 06, 2023 @08:21PM
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Does the zig compiler have many fancy bits? I was under the impression the c support was a "nothing special" compiler that punted to llvm for optimizations.
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Re:Six times faster than C
by plorkyeran on Thursday July 06, 2023 @11:01PM
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Correct, zig currently does not do any of its own optimizations. It won't necessarily have identical results to clang because it'll generate equivalent but not identical IR and the optimizer passes may happen to do something different as a result, but it's not going to be consistently different.