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LLVM 2.2 Released
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."
Please stop spreading misinformation.
LLVM has nothing to do with the GCC codebase. The only relation LLVM has to GCC are:
1) People are using GCC as a front end to LLVM code generators
2) Support for common GCC extensions
There will be little reason for people to continue with 1) when projects like clang are mature. LLVM is the most exciting thing to happen to compiler tech in a very long time. We are seeing with LLVM:
1) A from scratch set of code generation and analysis codebase that is completely modular and done right
2) A truly free source code license - no viral GPL BS to deal with
3) An explosion in the number of people working on compiler tech and tools since LLVM is so well thought out and modularized that every niche compiler/code generation need can be addressed by people with a very narrow area of expertise unlike GCC which is a giant and poorly designed mess of code.