From: Kent Sandvik
Subject: Re: A Common Lisp description
Date:
Message-ID: <19798@goofy.Apple.COM>
In article <············@wyvern.via.mind.org>, ·······@wyvern.via.mind.org writes:
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> ········@odalix.ida.liu.se (Johan Berntsson) writes:
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> > I have been looking for articles or books about how to implement a Lisp inter
> > preter/compiler on a micro computer but my research has so far been unsucessf
> > What I need is not a description about how to make Lisp in Lisp, or some
> > obscure PD-code, but a general and theoretical review about efficient ways to
> > write an evaluator, manage the garbage collection problem, handling macros et
>
> If you ever find a compiler, not just interpreted, for the IBM PC
> environment, I'd love to hear about it.
Try to get access to the PD sources for Scheme systems, such as Elk and
scm3c9. Reading the code you should get a good understanding how to create
a fast evaluation engine. A good ftp site with the material is for instance
nexus.yorku.ca.
Kent Sandvik
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