LLVM vs stock GCC

[Gary Meyer]

no, llvm is actually faster … to a certain extent you are comparing apple to oranges
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Gary Meyer
Java Software Build Engineer
gary.meyer at apple.com

On Apr 18, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Henri Gomez wrote:

> Hi to all,
> 
> I do some benchmarks with various JVMs available on OS/X
> (http://blog.hgomez.net/2011/04/18/apple-jdk’s-openjdks-–-core2duo-vs-core-i7/)
> 
> Apple VM (1.6.0-22/1.6.0-24), OpenJDK 6, OpenJDK 7 from bsd-port and
> OpenJDK 7 from macosx-port.
> 
> I notice a small performance loss in macosx-port version, which is
> similar to bsd-port code base, except it's using LLVM.
> 
> Did there is a penalty using LLVM instead of stock GCC ?
> 
> Thanks