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 # WIP libgccjit codegen backend for rust
 
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 This is a GCC codegen for rustc, which means it can be loaded by the existing rustc frontend, but benefits from GCC: more architectures are supported and GCC's optimizations are used.
 
 **Despite its name, libgccjit can be used for ahead-of-time compilation, as is used here.**