mikolaj-pirog wrote:

> As I'm not a Windows developer, I defer to other reviewers' expertise on 
> MSVC's PGO/LTO feature.
> 
> However, to be honest, I'm unsure about the value of porting the strings 
> given the large feature differences between Clang and MSVC on PGO and LTO. 
> `clang -flto -c` output is LLVM bitcode files, which are distinguishable on 
> their own. With LLVM LTO, you can have 1 bitcode file and 99 object files, or 
> 99 bitcode files and 1 object file. I am not sure identifying that LTO 
> happens is very useful.
> 
> There are many PGO flavors. If we add this, there could be some inconsistency 
> everytime someone adds a new flavor of PGO and does not port this piece of 
> code.

I agree that it's a little awkward to port this behavior to clang, since msvc 
does pgo/lto differently; the lto is enabled by default; it's impossible to do 
pgo without lto. The value of this patch, as I have seen when creating it, is 
the feature parity with msvc, accepting the awkwardness.




https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/114260
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