[LLVMdev] Preferring to use GCC instead of LLVM

[Jeff Fifield]

kr512 wrote:
  > It is an indisputable fact that the majority of software is
> fully compiled to native code files BEFORE being launched, 
> not during.  If anything is unusual, it is JIT that is 
> unusual.   JIT is the behavior in the minority -- there is 
> no doubting that fact.  JIT is the unusual one.

Actually JIT is very usual.  Many (most?) windows developers using the 
.NET framework compile their C++/C#/VB applications to MSIL.  MSIL is 
then just-in-time compiled to x86 at runtime.  Also, Java usually uses 
JIT and continues to be one of the most popular programming languages on 
Earth.