newLisp Internals

konrad · Post by **konrad** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 3:12 am

Hi I was just wondering if there was any documentation (other than reading the source) on how the newLisp interpreter actually works and what data structures it uses to do its job?

About the only thing I seem to have been able to find is the paper on Memory Management.

Lutz · Post by **Lutz** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 3:00 pm

At the moment the Memory Management document is the only place to find out about internals, but I will add some more chapters over time.

Its really pretty simple, I can post a short one-page summary coming week. Currently I am travelling and communicating over a slow dial-up line ;-)

Lutz

konrad · Post by **konrad** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 12:11 pm

Look foward to reading your summary,

regards

Konrad.

Lutz · Post by **Lutz** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 4:51 pm

Here is a first draft: http://newlisp.org/ExpressionEvaluation.html (still editing)

Lutz

Lutz · Post by **Lutz** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 7:32 pm

Second revision of: http://newlisp.org/ExpressionEvaluation.html

still editing, still not official ;-)

Lutz

cormullion · Post by **cormullion** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 1:13 pm

Impressive! Looks like I've got some serious study to do this year...