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by jryans 959 days ago
> LTO was available in llvm forever, and well predates GCC, clang is just a particular frontend.

For the initial version of this guide, I chose to focus on features as they are exposed in specific tools, as it's easier to pin down a "first available" date that way. Basic LTO for Clang is listed as first available in Clang 2.6, which is also the first LLVM release to officially include Clang.

> It also misses the function summary vs non summary modes, which is fairly important.

Are you talking about the module summaries LLVM uses in its parallel / thin LTO mode, or something else?