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If you want to know why it exists despite LLVM-IR existing, one answer is that at the time C-- was launched, LLVM-IR didn't yet exist. As for how they compare,
by _delirium 13y ago
If you want to know why it exists despite LLVM-IR existing, one answer is that at the time C-- was launched, LLVM-IR didn't yet exist.
As for how they compare, the answers to this question, on why Haskell didn't use LLVM (in 2009, it didn't) get into it a bit: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/815998/llvm-vs-c-how-can-llvm-fundamentally-not-be-better-for-haskell-than-c http://stackoverflow.com/questions/815998/llvm-vs-c-how-can-...