Browsing Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) by Subject "LISP"
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Abstraction in Numerical Methods
(1987-10-01)We illustrate how the liberal use of high-order procedural abstractions and infinite streams helps us to express some of the vocabulary and methods of numerical analysis. We develop a software toolbox encapsulating the ...
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The Description of Large Systems
(1984-09-01)In this paper we discuss the problems associated with the description and manipulation of large systems when their sources are not maintained as single fields. We show why and how tools that address these issues, such ...
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A Lifetime-based Garbage Collector for LISP Systems on General-Purpose Computers
(1988-02-01)Garbage collector performance in LISP systems on custom hardware has been substantially improved by the adoption of lifetime-based garbage collection techniques. To date, however, successful lifetime-based garbage ...
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A Note on the Optimal Allocation of Spaces in MACLISP
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1977-03-16)This note describes a method for allocating storage among the various spaces in the MACLISP Implementation of LISP. The optimal strategy which minimizes garbage collector effort allocates free storage among the various ...
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The Revised Revised Report on Scheme or An Uncommon Lisp
(1985-08-01)Data and procedures and the values they amass, Higher-order functions to combine and mix and match, Objects with their local state, the message they pass, A property, a package, the control of point for a catch- In the ...