From: ·········@my-deja.com
Subject: Lisp speed
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Message-ID: <7v2qca$v1i$1@nnrp1.deja.com>

I am an undergraduate in CS. In one of my courses, I worked in a
research project whose goal was to speed up Lisp.
Where on the web can I get more information/documentation concerning
optimizations for Lisp?

Thanks,
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From: Robert Monfera
Subject: Re: Lisp speed
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Message-ID: <3814FF60.A0D3C170@fisec.com>

CMUCL is famous for its optimizations, and you may freely obtain the
source.  There is a documentation, which describes some of the
optimizations:

http://www.mindspring.com/~rtoy/software/cmu-user/index.html

·········@my-deja.com wrote:
> 
> I am an undergraduate in CS. In one of my courses, I worked in a
> research project whose goal was to speed up Lisp.
> Where on the web can I get more information/documentation concerning
> optimizations for Lisp?

From: Marc Cavazza
Subject: Re: Lisp speed
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Message-ID: <3815BD85.59FA7076@bradford.ac.uk>

·········@my-deja.com wrote:

> I am an undergraduate in CS. In one of my courses, I worked in a
> research project whose goal was to speed up Lisp.
> Where on the web can I get more information/documentation concerning
> optimizations for Lisp?

I'm assuming you refer to Lisp code optimisation?

You can check the ALU web page for Lisp style:
http://www.elwood.com/alu/table/style.htm
and there should be on-line slides from Norvig and Pitman somewhere as
well ...

Also Norvig's "Paradigms of AI" has a section on optimisation, and
Graham's ANSI Common Lisp
has a chapter dedicated to it (#13).

The first logical step would be profiling, though (depending on your
Lisp implementation)

Hope this helps,

Marc

From: Raymond Toy
Subject: Re: Lisp speed
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Message-ID: <4n7lkaduz3.fsf@rtp.ericsson.se>

>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Cavazza <·········@bradford.ac.uk> writes:

    Marc> ·········@my-deja.com wrote:
    >> I am an undergraduate in CS. In one of my courses, I worked in a
    >> research project whose goal was to speed up Lisp.
    >> Where on the web can I get more information/documentation concerning
    >> optimizations for Lisp?

    Marc> I'm assuming you refer to Lisp code optimisation?

    Marc> You can check the ALU web page for Lisp style:
    Marc> http://www.elwood.com/alu/table/style.htm
    Marc> and there should be on-line slides from Norvig and Pitman somewhere as
    Marc> well ...

    Marc> Also Norvig's "Paradigms of AI" has a section on optimisation, and
    Marc> Graham's ANSI Common Lisp
    Marc> has a chapter dedicated to it (#13).

Also check out the CMUCL User's guide.  While specific to CMUCL, many
of the techniques also apply to other lisps.

Ray