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		D9u on Aug 1, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Compilers in OpenBSD I thought that clang was open source? I don't pay a single penny to use clang & llvm. I've been using clang in FreeBSD for a few months now and it seems to build faster than gcc.

ChuckMcM on Aug 2, 2013 [–]

I've recently been playing around with it, so it will be an interesting comparison. As others have pointed out if you don't like the change rate in open source you can always stabilize a version and just use it. Which I have done in the past. (Ubuntu 10.x on an EEEPC is a good example of that)

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