[llvm-dev] LLD status update and performance chart

[David Chisnall via llvm-dev]

On 13 Dec 2016, at 19:02, Mehdi Amini via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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> I’m totally willing to believe you that it is not possible to write the fastest ELF linker on earth (or in the universe) with a library based and reusable components approach. But clang is not the fastest C/C++ compiler available, and LLVM is not the fastest compiler framework either!

I’m not how it compares now, but at least when I started contributing and for a year or two after the speed of clang (especially at O0, for fast compile-test-debug cycles) was one of its big selling points.

David