[ACM Press the 1984 ACM Symposium - Austin, Texas, United States (1984.08.06-1984.08.08)] Proceedings of the 1984 ACM Symposium on LISP and functional programming - LFP '84 - DIALISP - a LISP machine

✍ Scribed by Stefan, G.; Paun, A.; Bistriceanu, V.; Birnbaum, A.

• Book ID: 120712400
• Publisher: ACM Press
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 344 KB
• Category: Article
• ISBN-13: 9780897911429
• DOI: 10.1145/800055.802028

✦ Synopsis

High performance facilities to interpret LISP represent an ever increasing request even for minis. This paper presents a LISP hardware structure conceived to be implemented in a general purpose mini system called DIAGRAM.

The LISP structure had to be adapted to the system technological requirements and size.

The data structure and the instruction set concerning the basic machine are also presented.

© 1984 ACM0-89791-142-3 84,008 0123 $00.75 limited due to the small number of fast registers and to the use of arithmetic comparing functions instead of logic ones, as in a dedicated structure.

Using a SSM to control the structure instead of a typical CROM configuration permits higher speed and the implementation oC a large micro-stack.

2.2. Duality

An important option for DIALISP takes