You are probably thinking of this email titled "LLVM IR is a compiler IR". http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2011-October/043719.html http://lists.cs.

You are probably thinking of this email titled "LLVM IR is a compiler IR". http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2011-October/043719.html http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2011-October/0437... It was not a stupid email. The arguments there are still pretty much correct today.