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LLVM Had Another Exciting Year With More Than 37k Commits, 35.5 Million Lines
LLVM development has peaked in recent years at around 37k commits per year for this huge, innovative open-source compiler stack
Following Simon was Kazu Hirata, Craig Topper, Fangrui Song, Nikita Popov, and Florian Hahn as the most prolific LLVM contributors of 2024. Proposal Raised To Deprecate "-Ofast" For The LLVM/Clang Compiler Some that crave the absolute best possible performance sometimes build their software with the "-Ofast" optimization level that is a step above "-O3" but comes with the risk of potentially unsafe math. But now an Arm compiler engineer has taken to leveraging BOLT for creating a binary analysis tool to vet the correctness of security hardening options.
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