I'm tasked with running several ML algorithms on a new hardware accelerator. Currently there is an LLVM toolchain for that new hardware, but no Python support is expected for a while which means implementing a bunch of ML code in C or maybe C++ (not a very pleasant prospect). I'm wondering, since Julia has an LLVM backend would it be possible to emit LLVM IR from Julia which could then be fed into our LLVM toolchain?

One thing that comes to mind here: does Julia use some kind of primitives for various things like matrix multiplication that might be difficult to export at the LLVM-IR level?