leff%smu@csnet-relay (10/23/86)
Implementing Scheme on a Personal Computer
Speaker: David Bartley Location: 315 SIC
Texas Instruments Time: 2:00 PM
PC Scheme is an implementation of the Scheme language, a lexically scoped,
applicative order, and properly tail-recursive dialect of LISP. PC Scheme was
implemented for IBM and TI personal computers within the Symbolic Computing
Laboratory at Texas Instruments. The presentation will examine some of the
pragmatic aspects of developing a production-quality LISP system for small
machines. These include: compilation vs. interpretation, using a byte-threaded
virtual machine for compact code, the architecture of the virtual machine,
runtime representation issues, compiler design, debugging issues, and
performance. Some significant differences between LISP and conventional
language implementations will be highlighted.