The Palo Alto giant's browser will be ditching Microsoft's native C++ compiler in favour of Clang in order to maintain parity with other platforms like macOS and Linux, where Clang is already used.

Google’s Chrome browser is now built using the Clang compiler on Windows. Previously built using the Microsoft C++ compiler, Google is now using the same compiler for Windows, macOS, Linux, and ...

Clang is GCC compatible and positioned as fast compiling, low-memory using, and extremely user-friendly with expressive diagnostics. Currently, Clang is the default compiler for Google Chrome, FreeBSD ...

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Developers dread the delays for a C++ project to build, but Zapcc, a variation on the Clang/LLVM compiler, cuts wait times by half or more C++ remains the go-to language for the highest-end, ...

Most of the major C++ compilers are similar in speed, Clang is not really much faster or slower than VC++ (or GCC for most tasks). Intel produces a compiler which does generally generate a faster ...