I don't think K/N includes cross compilation. It's probably translating kotlin too C or C++ and compiling that.

AFAIK it's not translating to C/C++, but LLVM IR code.

Surely Kotlin/Native can be used for cross-compilation, and of course no transpilation to C or C++ involved

that would make more sense...LLVM IR is essentially a VM 🙂

Nope, LLVM IR is an intermediate representation, similar to generic assembler, no virtual machines involved

It's assembly for a pseudo machine.. Defines registers etc. 😀