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by IshKebab 4141 days ago
You're thinking of that email that someone sent on a mailing list a while back about how LLVM isn't really a bytecode because it includes architecture-specific codes.

It was a stupid email - you can make LLVM into an architecture-agnostic bytecode by disallowing those codes.

Don't believe me?... https://developer.chrome.com/native-client/reference/pnacl-b...
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adrianm 4141 days ago
"You're thinking of that email that someone sent on a mailing list a while back about how LLVM isn't really a bytecode because it includes architecture-specific codes."

No, I'm not. In fact, I have no idea what email you're referencing.

LLVM as an intermediate language (I guess you could call it bytecode if you really wanted to) for compilers of arbitrary languages (expressly not a virtual machine!) is the only point I intended to make.

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sanxiyn 4141 days ago
You are probably thinking of this email titled "LLVM IR is a compiler IR".

http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2011-October/0437...

It was not a stupid email. The arguments there are still pretty much correct today.

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