Subj : Re: OO compilers and efficiency
To   : comp.programming
From : Chris Dollin
Date : Mon Jul 25 2005 12:16 pm

Rob Thorpe wrote:

> SML/OCaml - Only allocate simple things on the Stack
> Pop11 - Couldn't find out about this one, I'll take your word on it.
> Lisp - Allocates anything you want on the stack if the programmer
> specifies "dynamic-extent" but will cannot do so automatically.
> Smalltalk - Smalltalk "contexts" are held in a stack, but this makes
> little odds since "new:" is not a language intrinsic, it's a class
> method.
> 
> So, I've successfully proved myself wrong.
> 
> (Think of this as a mid-thread batting collapse.  I'll make it up in
> the second test, promise.)

I'm sure there's stuff out there on automatic stack-allocation for
Lisp - I remember noises about it from years back - so perhaps this
was just the first innings?

[Pop11 wasn't fair, of course.]

-- 
Chris "electric hedgehog" Dollin
predicting self-predictors' predictions is predictably unpredictable.

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