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by pjmlp 4460 days ago
> As far as shipping LLVM and letting the machines do the last step, that should make software developers uncomfortable.

Why? This is how Windows Phone 8 works (MDIL) and Android will as well (ART).

On WP 8 case, MDIL are ARM/x86 binaries just with symbolic names left in the executable. The symbolic names are resolved into memory addresses at installation time, by a simplified on device linker.

Android's ART, already made default on the public development tree, compiles dex to machine code on device installation.