The headline may or may not be true, but this essay is a bizarre mishmash of superficialities and non sequiturs, with a dash of "anyone could rewrite it better" thrown in.
If someone's going to whip out ancient slang like 'sweathog', at least use it right. It's either an overpaid/underworked caricature of a union worker used in anti-union propaganda, or it's the gang from Welcome Back Kotter. That's pretty much it.<p>Correction: also a band from 1971.
There was actually a really good push to both optimize LLVM and prevent regressions last year. See <a href="https://www.npopov.com/2020/05/10/Make-LLVM-fast-again.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.npopov.com/2020/05/10/Make-LLVM-fast-again.html</a>
I read this twice and I'm not really sure what's being asserted here. I got the impression there's conflation here between LLVM the project (which indeed is quite large) and what LLVM actually does when it generates code.