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Anyone tell the LLVM team that the Babel tower is a myth and that it ends bad?

Some CPU have specific idioms that are not only hard to translate but requires to be used fluently. Like natural language.

Btw, I never uses any software relying on a name of a myth that was a pure failure such as Babel or death star. It makes me feel like people intend to fail.

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Not really. IR is exactly a good fit for compiled languages, because there are no "hard to translate" idioms in languages targetted by LLVM that need really orthogonal translations on different architectures, which by the way aren't really all that different at a high level.

However I am still looking for a use case to write IR directly, or in place of bits of inline assembly.

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