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GCC 14 vs. LLVM Clang 18 Compiler Performance On Fedora 40


One of the leading-edge benefits of Fedora Linux is that it always ships with the most up-to-date open-source compiler toolchains at release.

One of the leading-edge benefits of Fedora Linux is that it always ships with the most up-to-date open-source compiler toolchains at release. For those curious how GCC 14 vs. LLVM Clang 18 performance is looking, here is a wide range of C/C++ benchmarks carried out on Fedora Workstation 40 using a System76 Thelio Major workstation powered by the Zen 4 AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X. When the GCC 14.1 stable release is out I'll be following up with a more diverse range of CPUs and benchmarks being carried out for these latest open-source compilers.

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