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Improve description of MIR 

Co-Authored-By: Centril <twingoow@gmail.com>
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is a type of diagram that shows the basic blocks of a program and how control is a type of diagram that shows the basic blocks of a program and how control
flow can go between them. Likewise, MIR also has a bunch of basic blocks with flow can go between them. Likewise, MIR also has a bunch of basic blocks with
simple typed statements inside them (e.g. assignment, simple computations, simple typed statements inside them (e.g. assignment, simple computations,
dropping values, etc). MIR is used for borrow checking and a bunch of other etc) and control flow edges to other basic blocks (e.g., calls, dropping
important dataflow based checks, such as checking for uninitialized values. values). MIR is used for borrow checking and other
It is also used for a bunch of optimizations and for constant evaluation (via important dataflow-based checks, such as checking for uninitialized values.
It is also used for a series of optimizations and for constant evaluation (via
MIRI). Because MIR is still generic, we can do a lot of analyses here more MIRI). Because MIR is still generic, we can do a lot of analyses here more
efficiently than after monomorphization. efficiently than after monomorphization.
- LLVM IR: This is the standard form of all input to the LLVM compiler. LLVM IR - LLVM IR: This is the standard form of all input to the LLVM compiler. LLVM IR