Cleavir
This is a continuation of Strands SICL (SICL implements Common Lisp). Although most of the compiler can itself be written in Common Lisp to be a compliant Compiler it must eventually compile to machine code. Today this is done by the SBCL compiler. To make the compiler work standalone this will need to be implemented and thus I have drafted this proposal. It is criteria that the compiler need to be fast and good. A speed goal for the generated code would be to be within a factor of 3 of a C compiler. The compiler itself must compile fast similarly to the SBCL compiler today or better. As SICL itself it is written in Common lisp.This is a preliminary draft of my ideas of how this can be accomplished, subject approval by Dr Strand.
- Clostrum First class global environment in common lisp
- Eclector Portable reader
- Cleavir Framework for common Lisp compilers
- Cluster Assembler that accepts input as objects
The 25 special forms of common lisp
By the time the code gets to the compiler the macro-expander has already run and all that is left are the 25 special forms that need to be compiled.
| block | let* | return-from |
|---|---|---|
| catch | load-time-value | setq |
| eval-when | locally | symbol-macrolet |
| flet | macrolet | tagbody |
| function | multiple-value-call | the |
| go | multiple-value-prog1 | throw |
| if | progn | unwind-protect |
| labels | progv | |
| let | quote |
Structure
