On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 6:50 AM, Gregory Szorc <g...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Over in bug 1253064 I'm proposing switching developer builds to prefer > Clang over GCC because the limited numbers we have say that Clang can build > mozilla-central several minutes faster than GCC (13 minutes vs 17.5 on my > I7-6700K). I'm not proposing switching what we use to produce builds in > automation. I'm not proposing dropping GCC support. This is all about > choosing faster defaults so people don't spend as much time waiting for > builds to complete and become more productive as a result.
I wonder whether we could get some speedup from using Clang/C2 [1] by default on Windows. It's probably worth investigating in the future as well. [1] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2015/12/04/clang-with-microsoft-codegen-in-vs-2015-update-1/ - Xidorn _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
