Abstract
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.
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