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by Sephr 4419 days ago
PNaCl's LLVM IR is machine independent and can be used standalone without Chrome.
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While true in a narrow sense, it does so by targeting the lowest common practical denominator—in practice, a chip that looks a lot like a 386 or 32-bit ARM with no SIMD pipeline. That puts it as little more than a better GNU Lightning.