[illumos-Discuss] LLVM / clang anyone?

[Antonio Vieiro]

Hi all,

As far as I know FreeBSD (and probably many other BSDs) is moving to
LLVM/clang, and clang guys are being very supportive [1].

The performance benchmarks [2,3] on compilation times are surprising.
And the tools available are great [3] (static analyzers, debuggers,
etc.)

I was wondering if it would be a good idea to start moving to
LLVM/clang to get rid of any possible sunstudio dependencies, if any.

As a drawback SPARC is not supported (as far as I know).

Thoughts?

Cheers,
Antonio

[1] http://wiki.freebsd.org/BuildingFreeBSDWithClang
[2] http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=11710
[3] http://clang.llvm.org/features.html