I'm sorry, I didn't think I needed to spell it out: LLVM front-end compiles a high-level language into an intermediate representation ("IR") which is then trans

I'm sorry, I didn't think I needed to spell it out: LLVM front-end compiles a high-level language into an intermediate representation ("IR") which is then transformed by the backend into machine code. A compiler targeting wasm occupies the same space as the LLVM front-end. Now, in a browser there is not as obvious a back-end, but it's there: it's the JSVM JIT code.