[LLVMdev] Google's Go

[Óscar Fuentes]

Jon Harrop <jon at ffconsultancy.com> writes:

> On Thursday 19 November 2009 19:48:18 Owen Anderson wrote:
[snip]
>> Compared to a compiler in the same category as PCC, whose pinnacle of
>> optimization is doing register allocation?  I'm not surprised at all.
>
> What else does LLVM do with optimizations turned off that makes it slower?

On my experience, optimization is not the slowest part, native codegen
is. (But it could be argued that native codegen is slow because it tries
to produce the most efficient native code out of the llvm bitecode.)

-- 
Óscar