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> Six ways Rust is fundamentally different from how it started > ... > 3. LLVM: strengths (amazing optimization) and weaknesses (narrow semantics)

Did Rust originally use a custom code generator instead of LLVM?



Sure did. I think it's still in the git history, boot/back/ or something.




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