[LLVMdev] FYI: Phoronix GCC vs. LLVM-GCC benchmarks

[Eric Christopher]

>>
>> Don't see much of a reason to be incompatible with gcc on this one.
>
> Note that this comment doesn't really make sense. The set of
> optimizations which runs for -O1 and -Os aren't at all "gcc
> compatible", changing the list of what runs at -O1 doesn't make
> llvm-gcc/clang any more or less "compatible". Given that we are free
> to change the passes that run at -O1, I'm just suggesting we change it
> enough that it coincides with -Os. :)

Ha. It's a philosophical change. I'd still say that our O1 mostly  
matches with the idea of "compiling for speed without taking too much  
time" instead of "compiling for size".

That said, I'm not really against the idea in general, just that an  
incompatibility would be confusing for those accustomed to the other  
way. Why I thought that a new set of options would probably be best  
for this sort of thing.

-eric