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Chrome continues to use MSVC on Windows because it generates better code than clang. So, MSVC is the worst compiler, except for the alternatives?

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I believe I read that it is rather that clang is (was?) not feature complete (until recently at least) for debugging in MSVC. Support for PDB/Codeview is very recent in clang, and I'm not sure it is complete yet.

Would appreciate a reference on that if you have it handy.

Is this more of a whole program measured X% regression on some perf benchs, or specific target cases where the codegen is notably worse ?

I should probably take back my claim because I can't find the evidence to back it up and I might actually be wrong. I thought I remembered that there were some important cases where VC++ generated better code for Chrome, and some binary size advantages, but I can't find my references.

crbug.com/457078 talks about binary size in clang-cl versus VC++. On x86 builds clang-cl produces ~14% larger binaries. On x64 builds it produces ~3.5% smaller binaries.

My recent changes have made the comparison tougher for clang-cl by making the VC++ binaries smaller :-)

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