FWIW: With nothing meant to denigrate what happened here, in general, if you want real answers, use the mailing list ;)

The people hanging out on IRC are random llvm developers, random llvm users, and some random others.

I've deleted my post, but in this case, I was speaking to two actual LLVM developers, not just random dudes on IRC. Anyway, it's not their fault, "get what you pay for" and all that, and like I said, I like and use LLVM and really can't complain. :)