Red Hat not only continues to invest heavily in GCC and the GNU tool chain, but is also improving its performance for the LLVM compiler. And how is this being accomplished? In the best way: Red Hat hires more LLVM build engineers.

Red Hat already employs a longtime great LLVM developer and current LLVM release manager, Tom Stellard, along with other LLVM engineers. However, they are now hiring at least two more LLVM engineers to join them.

Stellard shared that Red Hat is now hiring a leading software engineer to work on resource development and other user support tasks in the LLVM subprojects, but particularly in the LLVM itself and in Clang. They are also hiring an engineer with experience in compiler linker to work on BFD and LLD development.
It will be interesting to see what the focus is and what areas of resource development Red Hat will look for in the LLVM compiler stack. With the support of LLVM Clang for building the Linux kernel becoming more and more mature, more companies building on LLVM for their own compiler stacks and the increasing parity of resources and performance of LLVM for GCC on several fronts, it will be interesting to see whether LLVM / Clang takes on a bigger role within Red Hat, moving on with other projects like Fedora. With Fedora 35 , there is also a pending change proposal to allow more packages to be used by the Clang compiler instead of GCC. Meanwhile, there have also been recent talks about the possible departure of the GCC from the FSF / GNU .

Like some more GCC 11 vs. benchmarks. LLVM Clang 11 being published soon show, in front of x86_64 performance and AArch64 is the most fierce battle we have ever seen to see which compiler produces the fastest Linux binaries.

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