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by anarazel 2515 days ago
Heh, that's one of mine. The point isn't so much to restate the if itself, it's to explain that we're explicitly testing before loading the JIT provider - which happens immediately below.

Which in turn is because we a) do not want a hard dependency on any JIT provider, in particular we don't want a hard dependency on LLVM b) LLVM is a really slow to load dependency. Those bits are expanded more upon in the README in the same directory.

Edit: expand.