What Happens When Your Compiler Jumps 12 Years of LLVM Evolution?
September 25, 2026
One of the nice things about a compiler upgrade is that your application code doesn’t have to change. You simply rebuild the same codebase and see what the new toolchain can deliver.
Delphi 13.2 makes that comparison especially interesting on Linux. Delphi 13.1 (and previous versions) relied on LLVM 3.3, whereas Delphi 13.2 jumps over a decade of compiler evolution to LLVM 20.1.
I already…
