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		foobarbazqux on July 24, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LLVM Intermediate Representation is better than as... All of your arguments about going through C would go away if you had enough money to build your own ideal toolchain, including the development of your own IR for your language.

azakai on July 24, 2013 [–]

In theory. But it would be my own ideal toolchain. Someone else might make different tradeoffs in its design.

foobarbazqux on July 24, 2013 | [–]

I'm not sure I understand. The claim is that the only reason to target C is to save money.

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