Toolchain Options in 2023: What's New in Compilers and Libcs?

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Platform SDK toolchains are often not the best choice — answer: No. 2023 toolchain options show concrete tradeoffs: LLVM provides built‑in cross‑tooling (llvm‑objdump autodetects architectures), binutils/elfutils remain viable, and mold delivers dramatically faster, highly parallel linking for large projects while lacking full linker‑script support. Clang (LLVM 16) is a usable drop‑in vs GCC 13 with typical performance differences of ~2–5% and much faster C++ compile times; musl is ~785KB vs glibc ~4MB; tinycc source <4MB.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 3:46binutils - LLVM binutils
3. 6:05Alternative compilers: Clang
4. 13:08Alternative compilers: TinyCC
5. 14:17Compilers: BSPS
6. 17:07Compilers: performance
7. 18:09Compilers: Conclusions
8. 19:32Compilers: Multiple compilers are good!
9. 26:44libc: bionic (Android)
10. 29:53libc: Conclusions
11. 30:40C++ support: libc++

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