On Jul 24, 2013, at 5:12 PM, David Chase <david.r.ch...@oracle.com> wrote:
> > 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. I see… Thanks! Anything that reduces compilation time is good ) > > David >
