A machine independent LISP compiler and its implications for ideal hardware

Sammanfattning: A LISP compiler isconstructed without any a priori assumptions about the targetmachine. In parallel with the compiler a LISP oriented instructionset is developed. The instruction set can be seen as either anintermediarylanguage for a traditional computer oras theinstruction set for a special purpose LISP machine. The codeproduced by the compiler is evaluated with regard to its static anddynamic properties. Finally some architectural aspects on LISPoriented hardware are discussed. The notion of segments withdifferent word lengths, under program control, is developed and aproposed implementation of this is described.