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Re:Python to get Google-backed speedup by ori_b on Saturday June 13, 2009 @05:48PM (#656536)
LLVM isn't so much a VM for those languages to use directly as a portable assembly toolkit.

It's too low level to do compile to directly. It'd occupy a place in the stack somewhere near assembly, but with an optimizer in place. It's more of a VM toolkit than a VM itself.

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