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The CSL Lisp system is one designed primarily for delivering Lisp applications to users. It thus emphasises robustness, portability and small size rather than support for an integrated programming environment. Both portability and compactness are served by making CSL compile the bulk of applications code into a compact byte-code instruction set which is then emulated. The speed penalties inherent in this are offset by providing instrumentation that makes it easy to identify code hot-spots, and a second compiler that translates critical parts of the original Lisp into C for incorporation in the CSL kernel. For use with REDUCE it is found that compiling about 5% of the source code into C led to overall performance competetive with other Lisp implementations.
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Norman, A.C. (1993). Compact delivery support for REDUCE. In: Miola, A. (eds) Design and Implementation of Symbolic Computation Systems. DISCO 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 722. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0013187
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