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by javajosh 3385 days ago
I'm sorry, I didn't think I needed to spell it out: LLVM front-end compiles a high-level language into an intermediate representation ("IR") which is then transformed by the backend into machine code. A compiler targeting wasm occupies the same space as the LLVM front-end. Now, in a browser there is not as obvious a back-end, but it's there: it's the JSVM JIT code.
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That's not at all relevant.