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From: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New)
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Subject: Re: Aggressive optimization
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Date: 30 Oct 90 21:33:48 GMT
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In article <16101@csli.Stanford.EDU> poser@csli.stanford.edu (Bill Poser) writes:
>Fancy assemblers have been around for a long time. Consider [...]
>[...] It was practically an HLL.

The "Meta" assembler on Sigma-9's under CP/V was also quite powerful.
My friend wrote a LISP compiler in assembler macros. You could do
something like

       LISP,12	(DEFUN FLUB (X) (cond (null x) R3 (t) (x R3)))
to put the definition of FLUB into register 12.
It was pretty neat, but it took forever to compile.  -- Darren
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