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by IainIreland 479 days ago
Taking a quick look at the JSC code, the main difference is that CacheIR is more pervasive and load-bearing. Even monomorphic cases go through CacheIR.

The main justification for CacheIR isn't that it enables us to do optimizations that can't be done in other ways. It's just a convenient unifying framework.