[cfe-dev] About Clang - Features and Goals webpage

[Richard Smith]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 2:21 AM, Konstantin Tokarev <annulen at yandex.ru>wrote:

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>
> 23.04.2014, 07:04, "Sylvestre Ledru" <sylvestre at debian.org>:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I would like to update this page:
> > http://clang.llvm.org/features.html
> >
> > In particular, I would like to remove most of the information relative
> > to performances. This for various reasons:
> > * It is better if we leave third parties to do "independent" benchmark.
> > * We compare Clang (version unspecified) with gcc 4.0 or 4.2.
> > * The graphs have not been updated for a while.
> > * Clang is well known now. I don't think we still need to explain why
> > Clang is great.
>
> I disagree about the latter. Clang has a long-standing reputation of
> compiler
> which is faster than GCC, but generating slower code than GCC. On the
> other hand,
> recent releases of GCC greatly improved compilation speed, memory
> consumption,
> and diagnostics.
>
> So it would be useful to explain why Clang is still great when we have GCC
> 4.9.


Perhaps so, but the text being removed is not that explanation. It explains
why Clang 2.9 was better than GCC 4.0, which is no longer relevant to
anyone.
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