[cfe-dev] Some clang benchmarking on Windows

[Francois Pichet]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Óscar Fuentes <ofv at wanadoo.es> wrote:
> Francois Pichet <pichet2000 at gmail.com>
> writes:
>
> [snip]
>
>> Now we need a way to create a new configuration using CMake to enable
>> LTO compilation with MSVC.
>
> If you describe the process involved on using LTO I could help a bit.
>
> (Is that the same LTO based on LLVM? Does it work on Windows at all? Or
> is it the LTO provided by VS?)

I am talking about the LTO (Microsoft calls it Whole Program
Optimization) provided by VS. Being able to compile clang using VS
with Whole Program Optimization on.

Here are some docs:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0zza0de8(v=VS.90).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xbf3tbeh(v=VS.90).aspx