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This article presents how automatic program transformation techniques can be used in a functional language compiler to get significant improvement in the performance of the code generated. The transformations used are simple, but when they are repeatedly applied and interact, they achieve results that often are obtained only through specific and more complex transformations. 1 Introduction The compilation of languages by program transformation has been known and studied for many years [5,4,2]. But the study of program transformation techniques specifically for code improvement has often concentrated on computationally expensive transformations, and quite often the resulting effect of these transformations has been studied on small benchmarks, specially suited to reflect the performance improvements presented by the transformation on ideal circumstances, where it will achieve its best results. In this article we present how program transformation techniques have been used to improve th...

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