On 2013-07-23, at 7:38 PM, Tim Bell <tim.b...@oracle.com> wrote: > Hello Leonid: > >> Just to satisfy my curiosity: what are advantages of using clang instead of >> gcc? > > I am a mere messenger here, but I am told that clang/clang++: > > - is command line compatible with gcc > - is faster > - produces better diagnostic messages > - clang on MacOS is under active development while gcc is not [citation > needed] > > To others out there - feel free to correct these points, or add more of your > own.
Clang is the default compiler for the next (Mavericks) MacOS release, or so I have heard. Clang is already more up-to-date than (Apple-packaged) gcc on MacOS -- if you want to access some of the "new" (two years old) intrinsics from C or from the assembler, you need to use clang. Compilation of hotspot itself is faster with clang; not sure about the performance of hotspot itself. David
