[adrianm]

"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.