Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!godot!ima!inmet!bhyde
From: bhyde@inmet.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sources.mac
Subject: Re: XLISP author
Message-ID: <1963@inmet.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-Feb-85 02:04:15 EST
Article-I.D.: inmet.1963
Posted: Thu Feb 14 02:04:15 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 24-Feb-85 02:15:49 EST
Lines: 11
Nf-ID: #R:uw-beave:-71700:inmet:28100001:000:672
Nf-From: inmet!bhyde    Feb 12 07:38:00 1985

I'm not confident that this makes any sense... but in L* a lisp like
language there is an internal storage form for list that places a
list in an array holding only the cars.  I notice that you keep the
list elements in nodes that have a lot of space in them.  Might be
that the garbage collector could pack up short lists into this kind
of array like form.  Then the type macro could take the address using
of th enode using only the high order bits.  When a cluster of nodes
was allocted it you have to be aligned to make that possible.
  I read someplace that most lists are very short so it would almost
catch all cases.
  Wierd idea huh?		ben hyde, intermetrics Inc.