[PATCH] D124153: [CMake] Change default CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE to Release

[Erich Keane via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

erichkeane added a comment.

In D124153#3468675 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D124153#3468675>, @nikic wrote:

> For what it's worth, I'm somewhat surprised reading this discussion -- I was under the impression that developers generally use Release+Asserts builds rather than Debug builds. Apart from being slow to build, debug builds also make running tests prohibitively slow. Personally, while I do make use of LLVM Debug builds from time to time, I'd consider this to be a specialized configuration, similar to sanitizer or fuzzer instrumented builds. It's not a configuration I would recommend for routine development, and certainly not something I would recommend to new developers.

In the CFE, my team has found that the overhead of build & test running is worth it, as Clang ends up being near-undebuggable otherwise. We DEFINITELY use it for routine dev across my organization.  We are punished a little LESS in that we work on 12 core + server hardware, but we DO actually use gold or lld thanks to the OOM issue.


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