From 4e987026148fe65c323afbc93cd560c07bf06b3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yale AI Dept <ai@nebula.cs.yale.edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1993 13:08:00 -0500
Subject: Import to github.

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+This directory contains the files for the compiler backend.  All of these
+phases operate on FLIC code.
+
+optimize -- performs various tweaks to compact the code and make it faster.
+  also includes a postpass to fill in some additional structure slots.
+
+strictness -- attaches strictness information to functions and decides
+  whether locally-bound variables have a boxed or unboxed representation.
+
+codegen -- generates Lisp code from the optimized FLIC code.
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