Using clang for Chrome production builds on Linux

Chrome 38 was released early October 2014. It is the first release where the Linux binaries shipped to users are built by clang. Previously, this was done by gcc 4.6. As you can read in the announcement email, the switch happened without many issues. Performance stayed roughly the same, binary size decreased by about 8%. In this post I'd like to discuss the motivation for this switch. MotivationTh

[Rockridge]

Linux版Chrome 38からビルド環境がclangに変更されている。パフォーマンスはほぼそのままにバイナリサイズが8%削減され、モダンなC++機能も使用可能に。Mac版は15からclang。他方Windows版はVisual Studio 2013 Update 4を使用している。

[nakag0711]

VS2013の方がclangよりバイナリの質がいいらしい

[efcl]

Chrome 38 linuxではclangをビルドに使ってるとのこと