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by visualphoenix 985 days ago
Oh look… now we get a name collision for an intermediate representation [0]. That won’t make it difficult for searching at all… Like, this is cool and power to them, but I wish they had a different abbreviation.

[0] https://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2014/XDC2014AbbotNIR/

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I know of at least four MIRs. I used NIR as the name of the IR of one of my compilers. It's not a big deal. Just add qualifiers to your searches.