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+A llvm-py Builder wrapper for writing in slightly higher-level constructs.
+This is aiming for two usecases:
+1. Emit LLVM code in a more human-readable way;
+2. Writing low-level code that you can't do it properly/portably with C, e.g
+   template (generic), atomic operations, memory ordering...
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+