an optimizing compiler for lexically scoped lisp
We are developing an optimizing compiler for a dialect of the LISP language. The current target architecture is the S-I, a multiprocessing supercomputer designed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. While LISP is usually thought of as a language primarily for symbolic processing and list manipulation, this compiler is also intended to compete with the S-1 PASCAL and FORTRAN compilers for quality of compiled numerical code. The S-1 is designed for extremely high-speed signal processing as well as for symbolic computation; it provides primitive operations on vectors of floating-point and complex numbers. The LISP compiler is designed to exploit the architecture heavily. The compiler is structurally and conceptually similar to the BLISS-11 compiler and the compilers produced by PQCC. In particular, the TNBIND technique has been borrowed and extended.
optimizing compiler compilation lisp language architecture process supercomputer laboratory manipulation quality code signal processing operability vectorization complexity exploit floating point