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cpeterso
on July 22, 2015
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Five lists of six things about Rust
> 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?
pcwalton
on July 22, 2015
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Sure did. I think it's still in the git history, boot/back/ or something.
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Did Rust originally use a custom code generator instead of LLVM?