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They simply used what they knew best:
> If step one had been "learn the GCC or LLVM toolchains well enough to add segmented stacks", I'm not sure we'd have gotten to step two.
> Honestly, if we'd built on GCC or LLVM, we'd be moving so slowly I'd probably have left the project years ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8817990
If we were using LLVM...
They simply used what they knew best:
> If step one had been "learn the GCC or LLVM toolchains well enough to add segmented stacks", I'm not sure we'd have gotten to step two.
> Honestly, if we'd built on GCC or LLVM, we'd be moving so slowly I'd probably have left the project years ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8817990