Some Meaningful Performance Benefits For Clang + LTO Built Linux Kernels
Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 30 December 2025 at 01:50 PM EST. Page 4 of 5. 17 Comments.
The Clang-built kernel had shown some small benefits to the Memcached in-memory object caching performance.
The PostgreSQL database server also benefited from the Clang-built kernel and even more from leveraging the Clang compiler's link-time optimizations (LTO).