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LLVM's Libc++ Now Has C++1Y Standard Library Support

Posted by Unknown on from the john-titor-joins-the-team dept.

An anonymous reader writes "LLVM's libc++ standard library (an alternative to GNU libstdc++) now has full support for C++1y, which is expected to become C++14 next year. Code merged this week implements the full C++1y standard library, with support for new language features in the Clang compiler frontend nearly complete." GCC has some support for the soon-to-be standard too. The C++ standards committee is expected to produce a more or less final draft in just a few weeks. The LLVM and GCC C++14 status pages both have links to the proposals for the new features.

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  1. Re:GNU excitement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Faster at compiling at least. And there's lots of code floating around that was compiled in GCC version 4.3 or earlier - Clang/LLVM-compiled code runs circles around that. GCC had a huge speed boost at version 4.4 which took time for LLVM to catch up to. The latest version of LLVM is actually very competitive against the latest GCC except where the GCC code makes use of OpenMP (which LLVM is still busy implementing).

  2. A wrap-up of new features by jones_supa · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you are interested, the GoingNative 2013 talks include a C++11/14 Sampler by Scott Meyers.