> Why not both innovation and cost cutting? Ideally yes, but has anybody seen any indication that this is actually happening in this case? Until we see such a

> Why not both innovation and cost cutting? Ideally yes, but has anybody seen any indication that this is actually happening in this case? Until we see such a thing, I think people have reason to be skeptical. > Reproducing LLVM requires some crazy motivation? Oh, absolutely. While a LLVM monopoly isn't desirable either, unless you have some different vision of how to architect a compiler, reinventing the LLVM wheel probably isn't particularly useful.