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From: shebs@Apple.COM (Stanley Todd Shebs)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: pointers in Lisp
Message-ID: <624@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 9 Feb 89 18:58:40 GMT
References: <1710@cps3xx.UUCP> <33722@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <49734@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <Feb.7.11.41.26.1989.517@lightning.rutgers.edu> <36238@think.UUCP>
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In article <36238@think.UUCP> barmar@kulla.think.com.UUCP (Barry Margolin) writes:
>Note that Lispms aren't the only Lisps with CDR-coding.  I believe
>that a number of Lisps for conventional processors do CDR-coding these
>days.  It's a time/space tradeoff in these cases.

Whoa!  Which ones do you know for sure do cdr-coding??  I've not seen any
myself, even after an extensive survey of systems, which wasn't surprising
because you lose big if you don't have hardware support for forwarding ptrs...

							stan shebs
							shebs@apple.com