This is a phrase [GPS] created to describe a type of software development.  Basically '''compiler-directed flow''' means that the compiler creates most of the (if/branch)-statements, manages variables, and switch-statements by the act of compiling and associating patterns with instructions.

Programs that use '''Compiler-directed Flow''' generally are very application-specfic, because they solve specific problems, rather than general problems.  Software designed for reuse tends to be user-directed.

In an ideal world sequences of instructions would flow with as few jumps as possible (mostly for loops), and branching would rarely be needed.

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