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Subject: RE: C is faster than lisp (lisp vs c++ / Rick Graham...)
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In article <················@elissa.hc.ti.com> ··@elissa.hc.ti.com (Paul Fuqua) writes:
--> Date: 19 Aug 1994 21:10:48 GMT
--> From: ·····@labs-n.bbn.com
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--> disassembling this shows that it's only got 13 instructions, excluding
--> the FEF overhead. I don't know how many registers the LispChip has, but
--> it appears to be only one (!?) from looking at the assembly code.
-->
--> At the macroinstruction level, it's a stack machine, with some shortcuts
how totally silly of me to forget that of course I'm looking at
macroinstructions...I have no idea what the microcode does, but
presumably it's fairly clever.
--> Yeah, there are still some lispm people out here. I'm typing this on a
--> Sun with the diamond keys mapped to Control and Control to Rubout (but I
--> read mail on the Explorer).
-->
--> Paul Fuqua
--> Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas ··@hc.ti.com
and I'm one of them, although I never had the deep knowledge Paul does.
I do WAY more programming on a Sparc 10 these days, with xmodmap helping
me out too.
-- clint
speaking of xmodmap, JWZ wrote a cool tool to make it easy to use. I am
unable to contact him (or he's away for a while or something). can
anyone point me at a copy or send one?