Clang Vs GCC - Which Produces Faster Binaries?
Answer : Here are some up-to-date albeit narrow findings of mine with GCC 4.7.2 and Clang 3.2 for C++. UPDATE: GCC 4.8.1 v clang 3.3 comparison appended below. UPDATE: GCC 4.8.2 v clang 3.4 comparison is appended to that. I maintain an OSS tool that is built for Linux with both GCC and Clang, and with Microsoft's compiler for Windows. The tool, coan, is a preprocessor and analyser of C/C++ source files and codelines of such: its computational profile majors on recursive-descent parsing and file-handling. The development branch (to which these results pertain) comprises at present around 11K LOC in about 90 files. It is coded, now, in C++ that is rich in polymorphism and templates and but is still mired in many patches by its not-so-distant past in hacked-together C. Move semantics are not expressly exploited. It is single-threaded. I have devoted no serious effort to optimizing it, while the "architecture" remains so largely ToDo. I employed Clang prior to 3...