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[Gcl-devel] Re: Bison/Yacc for Common Lisp? + Lisp case performance


From: Camm Maguire
Subject: [Gcl-devel] Re: Bison/Yacc for Common Lisp? + Lisp case performance
Date: 26 Dec 2007 10:02:02 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to comp.lang.lisp as well.

Greetings!

tim Josling <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Robert E. Brown) said, a long time ago (23 Feb 2004)
> ;; Process the action for this production (in C this is a switch statement)
> (case yyn
>   (4
>    )
>   (5
>    )
>   (6
>    (setf yyval (aref yyvs yyvs-index)))
> ... much more etc
> 
> For a large grammar, this case macro will be very large. The only lisp
> that handles such a macro efficiently, that I have tested, is GCL. I
> have tested with (proclaim '(optimize (speed 3) (debug 0)) and (declare
> (fixnum yyn)) or similar to encourage fast code generation.
> 

cvs head also implements typecase in fast C switch form when all the
subtypes are recognizeable number types, at present.  Plan to extend
this to array types.

Take care,
-- 
Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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