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Re:Introducing MIR by Someone on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @12:52PM (#11582167)
Also, WebKit moved from LLVM to B3 (https://webkit.org/blog/5852/introducing-the-b3-jit-compiler...).
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Re:Introducing MIR by kibwen on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @01:18PM (#11582402)
I believe that's a bit different, as Webkit entirely replaced LLVM with a new backend, whereas here Rust is still ultimately emitting LLVM IR, just with a new well-defined step in-between.
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