== Progress ==
* Profiling ImageMagick - Clang 3.4-svn is around 10% less performing than GCC 4.7.3 - Mainly due to recursive octree-style map/reduce of most functions, spending a lot of time before/after branches - Any optimization on that front won't fit the "Incubation" tag
* Profiling EEMBC - Found 2 cases where Clang is *a lot* better than GCC 4.7.3 (pruning bmark.c, producing much smaller objects, and vectorizing telecom/autcor, which GCC can't) - Most of the time, GCC is slightly better (~5% faster, ~10% smaller, geomean) - Wrote some scripts to run any two compilers against each other, compare the results and dump the ratios in a TSV file.
== Plans ==
* Update EEMBC Linaro image with Clang toolchain changes * Look for low-hanging fruits in EEMBC * Try comparison with GCC 4.8 and 4.9, too * Find a way to extract Phoronix results in TSV format
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