[ANH]

I've seen this "10-20% slower" meme several times, but I've also read several accounts of 10-20% faster runtime performance.

All I know for sure is I compiled my codebase with Clang for the first time yesterday and the compilation time was absurdly short. I thought the compiler was broken. And it enables excellent tools like clang_complete for Vim code completion.

[stephen_g]

It depends on the code - while GCC, being more mature, is typically better at most optimisations, there are a few cases where Clang produces code that is a fair bit faster.

Over time, as Clang gets more mature, it will become more and more on par (or better) than GCC.

[MBlume]

Woah, let's not conflate compilation-speed with runtime-speed...

[ANH]

Read carefully and you'll see I was not.

[roel_v]

May be but your post was ambiguous wrt its implications. Defensive writing would have had you writing it more carefully about what you meant.

[cbf]

The parent was not intimating what you inferred.