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		miloignis 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Constrained languages are easier to optimize Your Phoronix link shows clang as faster than GCC (more is better on the graph). The benchmark game results seem to go back and forth. I don't think that it's convincing evidence that clang is slower than GCC.

holowoodman 6 months ago [–]

Yes, you are right. I think they are head-to-head nowadays.

I was thinking about, and meaning to post that one, but got the wrong search result:

https://www.phoronix.com/review/clang20-gcc15-amd-znver5/5

But they swapped places a few times over the last years, so basically there doesn't seem to be a fundamental difference in performance anymore.

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