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"gold standard"?

"gold standard"?

Posted May 2, 2012 8:29 UTC (Wed) by nwmcsween (guest, #62367)
In reply to: "gold standard"? by robert_s
Parent article: LFCS 2012: LLVM and Linux

> I'm also not so convinced by any "4% off gcc" claims about LLVM. Phoronix (yes, caveats aside) routinely test LLVM releases and it's common for LLVM to be a good 50% behind gcc

50% on very biased benchmarks that utilize openmp, which isn't supported as of now in clang/llvm.


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