Chrome now uses clang for production builds on Linux

Re:Chrome now uses clang for production builds on Linux by joelthelion on Monday November 17, 2014 @02:31PM (#8619961)

None of these reasons matter at all for production builds. The production build needs to happen only once per release, and the only things that count are performance and reliability.

The last time I checked gcc still had better performance than CLang, but things might have changed since then.

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Re:Chrome now uses clang for production builds on Linux by micampe on Monday November 17, 2014 @02:57PM (#8620122)

You don't want to build your nightlies with one compiler and then switch to a different one just for the final release.

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Re:Chrome now uses clang for production builds on Linux by DannyBee on Monday November 17, 2014 @03:50PM (#8620452)

1. It depends on your benchmarks. There are some it's behind on, some it's ahead on.

2. LLVM is a lot easier to improve.

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