GCC 6.1 vs. LLVM Clang 3.9 Compiler Performance Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 10 May 2016 at 10:04 AM EDT. Page 1 of 4. 10 Comments. After carrying out the recent GCC 4.9 vs. 5.3 vs. 6.1 compiler benchmarks for looking at the GNU Compiler Collection performance over the past three years on the same Linux x86_64 system, I then loaded up a development snapshot of the LLVM 3.9 SVN compile