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* chicken-3

  Maintenance branch for release 3.4.0. This branch is only for fixing
  critical bugs, main development takes place in trunk.

* prerelease

  Before a release, the current trunk is merged into this branch. This
  way, we can continue developing in trunk without delaying the next
  release. Ivan Raikov maintains this branch, felix breaks things.

* release

  Holds the version that is currently the official release. Here also
  Ivan Raikov, the CHICKEN release manager rules.

* elf

  Development branch of elf, core developer. Not used that much.

* lazy-gensyms

  "Lazy" gensym print-name creation, borrowing an idea used by Dybvig
  in his Chez system. Print-name slots (#1) of symbols may be fixnums,
  and the name is generated, when actually required (see
  "##sys#symbol-name"). Seems to work, and gensym creation is
  definitely faster, but the overall performance doesn't appear to be
  improved (actually, it seems to be worse than without the change).
  Created by felix.

* scrutiny

  An experimental lightweight flow analysis for finding common type-
  related bugs and simple argument-count mismatches to standard
  library procedures. Created by felix.