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From: hall@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu (Marty Hall)
Subject: Reference: HW Instructions to Speed Up Lisp?
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Organization: JHU/APL AI Lab, Hopkins P/T CS Faculty
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 16:36:11 GMT
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I read a paper once that talked about a small (2?) number of hardware
instructions that, if added to current RISC processors, could be used
to greatly speed up Lisp processing. Something about a fast-trap in
some condition, I vaguely recall. A friend asked me for a copy to help
in a project he is working on, but I can't seem to find it.

I looked through all my old issues of _Lisp and Symbolic Computation_,
_Lisp Pointers_, old LUV proceedings, and a huge stack of Lisp
articles (including Fateman's "Fast Floating Point Processing in
CL"). No luck. Could some kind soul point me to the reference? Or did
I just imagine this?
						- Marty
(proclaim '(inline skates))
