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by mtrimpe 4697 days ago
The Mill CPU [1] that was discussed a while ago is quite close to being the perfect architecture for a Lisp though, so hopefully many of other parts of these ideas will also come back in even more impressive forms.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGw-cy0ylCc
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cwzwarich 4696 days ago
Why is the Mill CPU good for Lisp? The Mill requires the compiler to schedule for cache and memory latency, but I would expect this to be difficult to predict for Lisp programs.
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mtrimpe 4694 days ago
You wouldn't predict it but if you assume decent code/data locality, which isn't an odd assumption in this case, the Mill's concept of scope and execution is close to a hardware implementation of Lisp's apply.

FYI; I'm at the limits of my understanding here, so if you're a compiler or CPU architect and you doubt what I'm saying here is true then you're probably right ;)

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