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> Mike says in his talk that LLVM started out with the goal of having an intermediate representation to run optimizations on. Hasn't this always been the case w
by pcwalton 9y ago
> Mike says in his talk that LLVM started out with the goal of having an intermediate representation to run optimizations on. Hasn't this always been the case with compilers in recent times?
Not just recent times. The dragon book from 1986 covers IRs.