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by Arnt 3037 days ago
Could you elaborate on the C++ resemblance?

Specifically, in my limited experience LLVM IR resembles typical hardware rather than C++. Modeling the hardware is a design goal for C++, of course, so anything hardware-like must be C++-like. Can you describe some ways in which IR resembles C++ that are not plausible ways to resemble hardware? I'm really curious.