Manuel López-Ibáñez <lopeziba...@gmail.com> writes: > From a user-perspective, there are benefits on both clang->gcc and > gcc->llvm. However, from what I know about the GCC project, I don't > see yet how GCC developers can consider either more beneficial than > the other.
It seems to me that at the present moment LLVM's frontends are better than GCC's, and GCC's backends are better than LLVM's. By this I mean specifically that LLVM's frontends generate better diagnostics, whereas GCC's backends generate code that has better runtime performance. (LLVM also appears to run faster, which is a good feature but not in my mind a determining one.) Therefore, I see a clear benefit to clang->gcc, but I do not see a clear benefit to gcc->llvm. This comment is of course entirely independent of the licensing issues. Ian
