#| -*-Scheme-*-
-$Id: assconv.scm,v 1.11 1995/06/21 23:52:52 adams Exp $
+$Id: assconv.scm,v 1.12 1995/06/22 00:57:02 adams Exp $
Copyright (c) 1994-1995 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
;; LET frames, belong to the same extent. Extents are represented by
;; unique values (small integers). Later we partition bindings
;; according to equivalence classes of the sets of extents in which
-;; they occur. The idea behind this is that mutable variables that
-;; travel around together will be placed in the same multi-cell but
-;; variables that are live in different extents are allocated to
-;; different cells, allowing better GC behaviour.
+;; references or assignments to them occur. The idea behind this is
+;; that mutable variables that travel around together will be placed
+;; in the same multi-cell but variables that are live in different
+;; extents are allocated to different cells, allowing better GC
+;; behaviour.
;; Legal values: BY-EXTENT (as decribed above), INDIVIDUAL-CELLS (each
;; mutable binding is allocated a separate cell), ONE-MULTICELL (all