Abstract
The authors describe the compaction methodology and certain features of the compactors used at Symbolics. These tools have been used as the sole physical layout tool for a 300,000-transistor single-chip Lisp microprocessor. The three compactors and compactor tools amount to 6000 lines of Common Lisp on a Symbolics Lisp Machine. The code makes heavy use of the object-oriented Flavor system. Times have been measured for a Symbolics 3640 with 24 Mb of RAM running Genera 7. 1.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Unknown Host Publication Title |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
| Pages | 192-196 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (Print) | 0818608021 |
| Publication status | Published - 1987 |
| Externally published | Yes |