From c222f93900c2bb1870e58a5f452e85c21ad89e8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Lattner Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:01:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] incorporate suggestions from Joel Nelson. git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/trunk@44782 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8 --- www/comparison.html | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/www/comparison.html b/www/comparison.html index 1e2614da7a..40cf546233 100644 --- a/www/comparison.html +++ b/www/comparison.html @@ -25,7 +25,11 @@

The goal of this list is to describe how differences in goals lead to different strengths and weaknesses, not to make some compiler look bad. This will hopefully help you to evaluate whether using clang is a good - idea for your specific goals.

+ idea for your personal goals. Because we don't know specifically what + you want to do, we describe the features of these compilers in + terms of our goals: if you are only interested in static + analysis, you may not care that something lacks codegen support, for + example.

Please email cfe-dev if you think we should add another compiler to this list or if you think some characterization is unfair here.

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  • The Elsa community is extremely small and major development work seems to have ceased in 2005, though it continues to be used by other projects (e.g. Oink). Clang has a vibrant community including developers that - are paid to work on it full time.
    • + are paid to work on it full time. In practice this means that you can + file bugs against Clang and they will often be fixed for you. If you + use Elsa, you are (mostly) on your own for bug fixes and feature + enhancements.
  • Elsa is not built as a stack of reusable libraries like clang is. It is very difficult to use part of elsa without the whole front-end. For example, you cannot use Elsa to parse C/ObjC code without building an