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LLVM 2.2 Released

Posted by Zonk on from the just-a-heads-up dept.

performance geek writes "LLVM 2.2 was released yesterday! This is the thirteenth public release of the open-source compiler that started as a GCC fork. LLVM supports several aggressive optimizations, in compile-, link- and run-time, and often produces faster (1.5-3x) code than GCC. It is also much faster than GCC at compiling (despite the slow link-time optimizations). Gentoo users are already trying to build the whole system with the LLVM toolchain to get the extra performance bit."

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  1. Extra Performance by Jellybob · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course the Gentoo users are off recompiling there whole system for the extra performance. It's what they do - why use your computer when you can make it .242% faster with only 15 hours of compiling?