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 ...

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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 ...

Clacc is a Software Technology development effort funded by the US Exascale Computing Project (ECP) PROTEAS-TUNE project to develop production OpenACC compiler support for Clang and the LLVM Compiler ...

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, ...

I wonder what performance impact this has had (if any). The last time I tested using Clang vs Visual C++ for compiling and found that the VC++ .exe was larger, but also faster to execute. I don't use ...

Google has decided to bring the Windows version of its popular Chrome browser in line with its Linux and macOS counterparts. As reported by Ars Technica, the company has switched Chrome's Windows ...