On 10/26/2009 10:45 AM, Adam Jackson wrote:
On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 19:07 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:On 10/26/2009 07:03 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 21:05 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:Has anyone been looking into building Fedora with it to see how the performance impact is?I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the dominating factor in our performance is the code itself.I meant performance, primarily in terms of speed of compilation. Not the code itself.Suppose it's faster. Say even by a factor of 100. So what? What problem would that solve?
Personally I don't that compile speed is as interesting as new bugs the compiler is able to highlight, either through the compilation process or through the use of LLVM as a static analyzer.
But LLVM/clang is quite far away from building Fedora, so I do not think there's a need for people to get anxious.
I worked for a couple weeks on fixing LLVM, clang and Linux kernel bugs so that the kernel would build under clang.
Jeff