Compiler/Linker benchmark time on Gentoo MacbookPro Macos 10.15.7 Xcode 12 clang default GCC 10.1 default LD=ld.bfd: Processor: Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Apple Mac-C3EC7CD22292981F (259.0.0.0.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8GB, Disk: 251GB APPLE SSD SM256E, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1GB (797/2508MHz), Audio: Cirrus Logic CS4206, Monitor: Color LCD, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57786 PCIe + Broadcom BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n OS: Gentoo 2.6, Kernel: 5.7.6-gentoo-x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: MATE 1.24.0, Display Server: X Server 1.20.8, Display Driver: NVIDIA 450.51, OpenGL: 4.6.0, OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 CUDA 11.0.197, Compiler: GCC 10.1.0 + Clang 10.0.0 + LLVM 10.0.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2880x1800 GCC 10.1 default LD=ld.lld: Processor: Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Apple Mac-C3EC7CD22292981F (259.0.0.0.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8GB, Disk: 251GB APPLE SSD SM256E, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1GB (797/2508MHz), Audio: Cirrus Logic CS4206, Monitor: Color LCD, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57786 PCIe + Broadcom BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n OS: Gentoo 2.6, Kernel: 5.7.6-gentoo-x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: MATE 1.24.0, Display Server: X Server 1.20.8, Display Driver: NVIDIA 450.51, OpenGL: 4.6.0, OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 CUDA 11.0.197, Compiler: GCC 10.1.0 + Clang 10.0.0 + LLVM 10.0.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2880x1800 LLVM 10.0 default LD=ld.bfd: Processor: Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 3.30GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Apple Mac-C3EC7CD22292981F (259.0.0.0.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 3rd Gen Core DRAM, Memory: 8GB, Disk: 251GB APPLE SSD SM256E, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1GB (797/2508MHz), Audio: Cirrus Logic CS4206, Monitor: Color LCD, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57786 PCIe + Broadcom BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n OS: Gentoo 2.6, Kernel: 5.7.6-gentoo-x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: MATE 1.24.0, Display Server: X Server 1.20.8, Display Driver: NVIDIA 450.51, OpenGL: 4.6.0, OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 CUDA 11.0.197, Compiler: Clang 10.0.0 + GCC 10.1.0 + LLVM 10.0.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2880x1800 Macos 10.15.7 Xcode 12 clang default: Processor: Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Pro, Chipset: Intel 7, Memory: 2 x 4 GB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 251GB APPLE SSD SM256E, Graphics: Intel HD 4000 + NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 2GB, Monitor: Color LCD OS: macOS 10.15.7, Kernel: 19.6.0 (x86_64), Compiler: Clang 12.0.0 + GCC 12.0.0 + Xcode 12.3, File-System: APFS, Screen Resolution: 2880x1800 Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.41 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC 10.1 default LD=ld.bfd .. 52.54 |======================================== GCC 10.1 default LD=ld.lld .. 52.53 |======================================== LLVM 10.0 default LD=ld.bfd . 54.75 |========================================== Timed FFmpeg Compilation 4.2.2 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC 10.1 default LD=ld.bfd .. 206.87 |========================================= GCC 10.1 default LD=ld.lld .. 182.40 |==================================== LLVM 10.0 default LD=ld.bfd . 182.43 |==================================== Timed GCC Compilation 9.3.0 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC 10.1 default LD=ld.bfd .. 2751.76 |======================================== GCC 10.1 default LD=ld.lld .. 2470.30 |==================================== LLVM 10.0 default LD=ld.bfd . 2599.96 |====================================== Timed GDB GNU Debugger Compilation 9.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC 10.1 default LD=ld.bfd .. 231.30 |========================================= GCC 10.1 default LD=ld.lld .. 220.32 |======================================= LLVM 10.0 default LD=ld.bfd . 225.36 |======================================== Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.9.0 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC 10.1 default LD=ld.bfd ........... 107.56 |================================ GCC 10.1 default LD=ld.lld ........... 90.58 |=========================== LLVM 10.0 default LD=ld.bfd .......... 86.56 |========================== Macos 10.15.7 Xcode 12 clang default . 97.24 |============================= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 5.4 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC 10.1 default LD=ld.bfd .. 351.54 |========================================= GCC 10.1 default LD=ld.lld .. 287.25 |================================== LLVM 10.0 default LD=ld.bfd . 295.29 |================================== Timed LLVM Compilation 10.0 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC 10.1 default LD=ld.bfd ........... 2659.90 |=============================== GCC 10.1 default LD=ld.lld ........... 2193.63 |========================== LLVM 10.0 default LD=ld.bfd .......... 2523.52 |============================= Macos 10.15.7 Xcode 12 clang default . 2343.02 |=========================== Timed MPlayer Compilation 1.4 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC 10.1 default LD=ld.bfd .. 159.96 |========================================= GCC 10.1 default LD=ld.lld .. 133.80 |================================== LLVM 10.0 default LD=ld.bfd . 143.22 |===================================== Timed PHP Compilation 7.4.2 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC 10.1 default LD=ld.bfd .. 171.23 |========================================= LLVM 10.0 default LD=ld.bfd . 144.76 |===================================