Kyoto Common Lisp on SGI

[Jim Barton]

In article <818 at mv06.ecf.toronto.edu>, soosaar at ecf.toronto.edu (Robert Soosaar) writes:
> We are porting Kyoto Common Lisp to our Silicon Graphics
> workstations (Personal Iris and 3000 series) and have come
> across a few problems.
...
> 
> On the Personal Iris:
> 	A few of the functions are written with in-line assembly
> 	code.  These functions (in earith.c and bitop.c) have to
> 	be converted into assembler code for the MIPS processor.
> 
...
> Rob Soosaar


Might I suggest you just write the same code in C, and let the MIPS optimizer
turn it into fast assembly.  I haven't hand coded assembly for a 4D for
speed purposes for years.  The last time I did, I spent hours getting at as
fast as possible.  Then I wrote the same function in C, compiled & optmized
it, and found out that the generated code had one less instruction than I
had.  Why beat your brains out?

-- Jim Barton
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