[vruiz]

> I'm interested in why LLVM was disqualified.

They simply used what they knew best:

> If step one had been "learn the GCC or LLVM toolchains well enough to add segmented stacks", I'm not sure we'd have gotten to step two.

> Honestly, if we'd built on GCC or LLVM, we'd be moving so slowly I'd probably have left the project years ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8817990

[enneff]

Even today we can still re-build the entire tool chain and standard library in one minute on a modest machine.

If we were using LLVM...