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Re:Memories of Mozilla at 15 and Thoughts on Mozilla Research by pcwalton on Thursday April 04, 2013 @02:03PM (#5494141)
Runtime performance. This is mostly an LLVM versus GCC thing.

Runtime performance is far more important to us than compiler speed—a fast-to-compile Web browser is useless if it loses to existing engines in UX or benchmarks (every cycle counts!)—but we continue to spend time on compiler speed, because it's important for developers.

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Re:Memories of Mozilla at 15 and Thoughts on Mozilla Research by surrealize on Thursday April 04, 2013 @02:43PM (#5494464)
> This is mostly an LLVM versus GCC thing.

So how does clang do on nbody.c?

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