> I can explain it easily: LTO is effectively an experimental feature in Clang right > now. (Ditto GCC, but GCC was eliminated in Xcode 5). Both compiler teams' test suites > for it consist more or less entirely of building Firefox with it and if no smoke > comes out of the computer they mark it as "success". Trying it on MAME is basically > taking your life into your own hands.
Cool, thanks. Looks like I really need to start paying more attention to what's going on with clang; work pressures mean that I've been building less and less software directly the past couple of years, so my general knowledge of what's going on with the toolchains has definitely slipped.
Just wanted to make sure that it wasn't something OS X-specific that had crept in. Appreciate the reply.
|