[Python-Dev] New FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT buildbot

[Dan Stromberg]

On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Carlos Nepomuceno <
carlosnepomuceno at outlook.com> wrote:

> ----------------------------------------
> > Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 15:12:43 +1000
> > From: koobs.freebsd at gmail.com
> > To: python-dev at python.org
> > Subject: [Python-Dev] New FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT buildbot
> [...]
> > koobs-freebsd10-amd64 (clang is default here)
>
>
> Does CPython code compiled with clang runs faster than gcc?
>
> Why did you chose clang? Any benchmarks? Any benefits?
>

Clang is sometimes favored over gcc for its non-GPL license; I believe the
FreeBSD project sees this as an important issue.

In general, the more C compilers a piece of C code compiles on, the fewer
bugs are left in it, because different C compilers tend to catch different
problems - even with cranked up warnings.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20130602/0104c45d/attachment.html>