[cfe-dev] Using clang as production compiler for chrome/mac

[Chris Lattner]

On Jul 15, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Eric Christopher wrote:

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> On Jul 15, 2011, at 10:28 AM, Nico Weber wrote:
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>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Eric Christopher <echristo at apple.com> wrote:
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>>> On Jul 9, 2011, at 5:34 PM, Nico Weber wrote:
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>>> I imagine that it might be useful for the clang project, since we have
>>> quite a bit of monitoring in chromium land (automated perf graphs,
>>> compile time graphs, crash reporting that $many users have opted in
>>> to), so that we could find and report regressions in clang reasonably
>>> quickly. Do you think this is interesting at all?
>>> 
>>> I do think this is interesting. It shouldn't be too bad since one of the
>>> goals
>>> we have for clang is to keep it roughly shippable at all times on ToT.
>> 
>> Would you mind if we keep our branches in the upstream llvm svn repo?
>> They would be numerous (we typically start a new stable release every
>> six weeks) but wouldn't see much traffic.
> 
> I don't think it would be much of a problem, branches are cheap. :)
> 
> You'll want to make a "chromium" branch directory to mirror the existing apple one.

Makes sense to me.

-Chris