The difference is that they had to port the entire JIT to the new processor. With LLVM, you just need the backend components that represent the CPU. Granted, fr

The difference is that they had to port the entire JIT to the new processor. With LLVM, you just need the backend components that represent the CPU. Granted, from an app developer's perspective, this is not really relevant because they're targeting a VM; where the VM runs, their apps run.