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Reference Lightening instead of GNU Lightning

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* doc/ref/vm.texi (Just-In-Time Native Code): Update with link to
  Lightening.
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@c -*-texinfo-*-
@c This is part of the GNU Guile Reference Manual.
@c Copyright (C) 2008-2011, 2013, 2015, 2018
@c Copyright (C) 2008-2011, 2013, 2015, 2018, 2019
@c Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c See the file guile.texi for copying conditions.
@ -1910,11 +1910,14 @@ breakpoint, Guile will disable the JIT for the thread being debugged,
falling back to the interpreter (which has the corresponding code to run
the hooks). @xref{VM Hooks}.
Guile uses the GNU Lightning library to emit native code. This allows
Guile's template JIT supports practically all architectures, from
Itanium to MIPS. You can optimize a program on your x86-64 desktop and
you can know that the corresponding program on an AArch64 phone will
also get faster.
To emit native code, Guile uses a forked version of GNU Lightning.This
"Lightening" effort, spun out as a separate project, aims to build on
the back-end support from GNU Lightning, but adapting the API and
behavior of the library to match Guile's needs. This code is included
in the Guile source distribution. For more information, see
@url{https://gitlab.com/wingo/lightening}. As of mid-2019, Lightening
supports code generation for the x86-64, ia32, ARMv7, and AArch64
architectures.
The weaknesses of a template JIT are two-fold. Firstly, as a simple
back-end that has to run fast, a template JIT doesn't have time to do