What A Metaobject Protocol Based Compiler Can Do For Lisp
A new kind of metaobject protocol, that controls the compilation of programs, allows users to participate in the compilation in a principled and modular way. Such a compiler makes it possible to program in a high-level language and still maintain control over crucial implementation issues. This result is that a number of simple and elegant Scheme programs can be compiled as efficiently as if they had been written with special purpose primitives.
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