llvm vs. parrot

[Paul Watson]

On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 06:18 -0700, Fuzzyman wrote:
> On Apr 11, 12:16 am, Paul Watson <paul.hermeneu... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is Parrot out of favor these days?  It appears that Google is going to
> > use llvm.
> >
> > http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/
> 
> Has Parrot ever been in favour?
> 
> Actually they're quite different things.
> 
> Michael
> --
> http://www.ironpythoninaction.com/

Are you saying they are "quite different" because llvm gets compiled
into native code and Parrot bytecode is still interpreted?

At the intermediate form, they seem quite similar.  Why do you say not?