LLVM 2.2 Released

performance geek writes "LLVM 2.2 was released yesterday! This is the thirteenth public release of the open-source compiler that started as a GCC fork. LLVM supports several aggressive optimizations, in compile-, link- and run-time, and often produces faster (1.5-3x) code than GCC. It is also much faster than GCC at compiling (despite the slow link-time optimizations). Gentoo users are already trying to build the whole system with the LLVM toolchain to get the extra performance bit."

Re:Good reporting there, submitter

[samkass]

Although Apple states that clang is not designed to replace GCC overall, I would be surprised if Apple wasn't planning on it replacing GCC in their products. It appears to provide more performance, smaller binaries, and a freer license than GCC.

Apple already reportedly uses it to compile their graphics code so that the same code can run on either a GPU or the CPU regardless of chipset available.