I personally think that IR is _more_ expressive than C. There are two points I wanted to make in the blog post: - LLVM IR is cool and in many cases it could be

I personally think that IR is _more_ expressive than C. There are two points I wanted to make in the blog post: - LLVM IR is cool and in many cases it could be beneficial to use it instead of assembler - If LLVM is bad for any reason, writing an optimizer is relatively simple. And, as opposed to hand crafted optimizations, it does scale.