[New-bugs-announce] [issue33351] Support compiling with clang-cl on Windows

[Ethan Smith]

New submission from Ethan Smith <ethan at ethanhs.me>:

The clang folks have been hard at work making an ABI compatible backend to clang for Windows. Additionally they have created a cl compatible driver for clang, which can be used in lieu of cl itself. Clang-cl has been adopted to build Chrome on Windows http://blog.llvm.org/2018/03/clang-is-now-used-to-build-chrome-for.html, so I think it is stable enough to be considered for use.

Clang-cl has several advantages, such as computed goto support and many other optimizations which would make Python faster on Windows.

I would be happy to start contributing patches to further this goal, I already have a couple of small patches.

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components: Build
messages: 315721
nosy: Ethan Smith
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Support compiling with clang-cl on Windows
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.8

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