I'm not familiar with how Julia uses it, but I've worked on two different projects that tried to use LLVM as a JIT backend, I've written a small bit on the expe

I'm not familiar with how Julia uses it, but I've worked on two different projects that tried to use LLVM as a JIT backend, I've written a small bit on the experience: http://www.quora.com/LLVM/Is-LLVM-not-good-for-interpreted-languages-Why/answer/Alex-Gaynor http://www.quora.com/LLVM/Is-LLVM-not-good-for-interpreted-l...