GCC 7.0 vs. LLVM Clang 4.0 Performance With Both Compiler Updates Coming Soon

Clang 4.0 is faster than Clang 3.9.1 for the LAME MP3 encoding performance, but still behind GCC.

Clang 4.0 also appeared a bit quicker than Clang 3.9.1 for the FFmpeg encoding test.

GCC 6/7 was quicker than Clang 3.9/4.0 for Caffe's AlexNet test running on the CPU.

The Googlenet performance though was about the same speed.

With Redis the compiler results were close but GCC 7.0 appeared to have the advantage.

For what it's worth, here are some statistics on the first and last place finishes for all the compiler benchmarks in this article (via Phoronix Test Suite 7.0's new winners-and-losers sub-command):

WINS:
Clang 3.9.1:         12  [25.0%]
Clang 4.0 SVN:       9   [18.8%]
GCC 4.9.4:           7   [14.6%]
GCC 7.0.0 20170108:  7   [14.6%]
GCC 5.4.0:           7   [14.6%]
GCC 6.3.0:           6   [12.5%]

LOSSES: 
Clang 3.9.1:         13  [27.1%]
GCC 5.4.0:           12  [25.0%]
GCC 4.9.4:           7   [14.6%]
GCC 7.0.0 20170108:  7   [14.6%]
Clang 4.0 SVN:       7   [14.6%]
GCC 6.3.0:           2   [4.2%]

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