The reason why PyPy dropped llvm as an assembler backend is because llvm is a pain to deploy and use. We have an undergoing llvm backend, but there is a bit of

The reason why PyPy dropped llvm as an assembler backend is because llvm is a pain to deploy and use. We have an undergoing llvm backend, but there is a bit of unadressed issues and someone might want to take a look at it (http://codespeak.net/svn/pypy/trunk/pypy/jit/backend/llvm/ http://codespeak.net/svn/pypy/trunk/pypy/jit/backend/llvm/) if he wants to continue.