debray@arizona.edu (Saumya K. Debray) (08/04/88)
Does anyone know of references to compile-time tag stripping in languages like Lisp or Prolog? The idea is to take procedures that take and return tagged objects, and compile them so that repeated untagging and tagging of objects is minimized as far as possible. Saumya Debray CS Dept, University of Arizona, Tucson debray@arizona.edu | arizona!debray -- Send compilers articles to ima!compilers or, in a pinch, to Levine@YALE.EDU Plausible paths are { ihnp4 | decvax | cbosgd | harvard | yale | bbn}!ima Please send responses to the originator of the message -- I cannot forward mail accidentally sent back to compilers. Meta-mail to ima!compilers-request