Abstract
The authors describe various techniques devised for the TAO/ELIS system in order to speed up the interpreter of the TAO language implemented on the ELIS Lisp machine. The techniques include data-type dispatch, variable access, function call, and so on. TAO is not only upward compatible with Common Lisp, but also incorporates logic programming, object-oriented programming and Fortran/C-like programming into Lisp programming. TAO also provides concurrent programming and supports multiple users (up to eight users). The TAO interpreter for those programming paradigms is coded fully in microcodes. In spite of rich functionalities, the speed of interpreted codes of TAO is comparable to that of compiled codes of commercial Lisp machines. Another outstanding feature of the TAO/ELIS system is its firmware development environments. Micro Assembler and Linker are written in TAO, which enables the user to use the capability of TAO in microcodes.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | MICRO: Annual Microprogramming Workshop |
| Place of Publication | New York, NY, USA |
| Publisher | ACM |
| Pages | 1-11 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| ISBN (Print) | 0897912500 |
| Publication status | Published - 1987 |
| Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Engineering(all)