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mwcampbell on Dec 8, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: GCC-Rust: Rust frontend for GCC

> its own (Cranelift)

Interesting. This is the first I've heard of Cranelift being used as anything other than a code generator for wasm runtimes. When would Cranelift be used instead of LLVM, and vice versa?

amaranth on Dec 8, 2019 [–]

So far the goal is faster debug builds, both in compile times and performance of the generated code.

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