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Re:Making WebAssembly better for Rust and for all languages by andromeduck on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @10:24PM (#16590031)
But why use webasm for that when llvm already does it better?
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Re:Making WebAssembly better for Rust and for all languages by harpocrates on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @11:03PM (#16590159)
I'm not sure I understand: WebAssembly is the output of a (hopefully) optimizing compiler. LLVM is such a compiler backend. If you use WebAssembly today, you are probably going through LLVM.

Perhaps you meant: why not use LLVM IR instead of WebAssembly? If so, allow me to refer you to this comment[1] (from a bit further down in this thread).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16586239

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