LLVM & Compiler Architecture
Why compilers split into front end, IR, and back end — and how that one decision lets n languages target m machines without an n×m explosion of compilers.
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TODO: write the article. See the diagram above for the three-phase compiler model, the n×m problem it solves, and how GCC and the JVM each take a different shape on that same idea.