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		nknight on Oct 7, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LLVM IR is a compiler IR Thanks for the fortune-cookie wisdom. That tells no one anything. We don't have square pegs or round holes, we have complex engineering problems to solve, and LLVM's complex shape is obscured by a community that doesn't agree on its shape, so we have no way to tell if it fits our holes.

oopsdude on Oct 7, 2011 [–]

So you shoot down his "fortune-cookie wisdom", and correct him with the same type of analogy. Was the bile necessary?

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