[LLVMdev] speed and code size issues

[Evan Cheng]

On Jul 17, 2009, at 4:41 PM, Eli Friedman wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Jonathan Gray<jsg at goblin.cx> wrote:
>> This seems to go against notes such as
>> http://clang.llvm.org/features.html#performance
>> which claim clang is signifcantly faster than gcc.
>
> I think the URL you want is actually
> http://clang.llvm.org/performance.html.  The difference isn't as
> dramatic when you consider code generation, at least for the moment.

On Mac OS X / x86, llvm-gcc is easily > 20% faster than gcc 4.2 at - 
O2 / -O3.

>
>> Below are some times and the larger object files when
>> compiling an i386 OpenBSD kernel at -O2 on an Intel Atom
>> based laptop.  The significantly larger code size
>> is rather disturbing as it means binaries can't fit on
>> space constrained installation media for example.
>
> Are you building with -g?  The debug info implementation is known to
> be relatively inefficient.

That shouldn't matter much unless it's -O0.

llvm generated code size is very close to gcc 4.2 (slightly worse on  
x86, slightly better on x86_64). Given the code size difference, I am  
inclined to believe something isn't being setup right. Jonathan,  
please file a bug and attach the complete build logs. Also, please  
some preprocessed files (e.g. bwi.i). Perhaps some .o files will help  
as well.

Evan

>
> -Eli
>
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