would LLVM be useful to compile lua to native code?

[Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@...>]

http://llvm.org/

Lua is already fast, but you can't get to fast!

I know Mike's lua-jit does a fine job already for x86, but I wonder if
llvm would allow a different and also useful approach to the problem?

I notice that pypy is trying to use it.

Cheers,
Sam