[cfe-dev] linking and stripping compared to GCC 4.4

[Chris Lattner]

On Nov 29, 2010, at 3:16 PM, Luc Bourhis wrote:
>> You really have to compare on the same machine in the same config to do a useful comparison
> 
> So I have installed clang trunk on the very same machine where I ran gcc 4.4. Compiling the very same demo.cpp, here is the result: 240K with g++ and 294K with clang++, i.e. 22% more. I stared at the nm output for 5 mins without much success.
> 
> Worth a bug report?

It sounds like an important issue to track down, but unless there is a reduced testcase, no one is likely to have time to look at it in the near future.

-Chris