Things that go Clang in the night: LLVM 2.4 released (ars technica)

Here's a look at the LLVM 2.4 release on ars technica. "One very significant part of the LLVM effort is the Clang project, which aims to build a completely new LLVM front-end - one that can be used in place of the current GCC-based front-ends - for C-like languages. Clang is progressing rapidly and is already capable of compiling some C applications. Clang offers a lot of really compelling advantages over GCC. Some early benchmarks show that it delivers insanely fast compilation and much lower memory overhead. In some real-world tests, Clang is 2.5 times faster than GCC and uses five times less memory. It also uses less disk space during the compilation process."

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