[erlang-questions] Threaded VM with llvm-gcc

[Kenji Rikitake]

I'd like to find out if any performance increase is obtained by the
compile-time options for LLVM (clang) on FreeBSD 9-STABLE and later.
(FreeBSD 10 will drop gcc and focus on clang as the default compiler)

Kenji Rikitake

++> Anthony Ramine <n.oxyde@REDACTED> [2013-09-24 11:50:05 +0200]:
> Le 24 sept. 2013 à 07:37, Björn Gustavsson a écrit :
> > The test is where to protect against an old broken version
> > of llvm-gcc that did not handle jump tables correctly.
> > It will also make sure that Erlang/OTP can be compiled
> > on systems where no compiler that supports jump tables
> > can be found.
> 
> Shouldn't the test be fixed for more recent versions? I don't like limiting stuff because of old and outdated versions.