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Re:Five lists of six things about Rust by cpeterso on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @12:24AM (#9927726)
> Six ways Rust is fundamentally different from how it started > ... > 3. LLVM: strengths (amazing optimization) and weaknesses (narrow semantics)

Did Rust originally use a custom code generator instead of LLVM?

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Re:Five lists of six things about Rust by pcwalton on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @12:31AM (#9927742)
Sure did. I think it's still in the git history, boot/back/ or something.
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