ALPHA-a high-performance LISP machine equipped with a new stack structure and garbage collection system

1983; ACM SIGARCH; Volume: 11; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1145/1067651.801672

ISSN

1943-5851

Autores

Hiromu Hayashi, Akira Hattori, Haruo Akimoto,

Tópico(s)

Caching and Content Delivery

Resumo

ALPHA is a dedicated machine designed for high-speed list processing. In this article, we describe a highly effective stack which can support a value cache and virtual stack, and high-speed garbage collection algorithm for virtual memory. These new ideas have been studied in ALPHA. ALPHA is designed as a back end processor for a large computer under TSS. ALPHA allows TSS users to do more high-speed list processing than a large computer does. Currently UTILISP is operating on ALPHA and runs several times faster than MACLISP on the DEC 2060.

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