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Re:Mill Computing in 2017 by kazinator on Sunday January 15, 2017 @05:01AM (#13403309)
To "execute Lisp directly" means to interpret the AST. No hardware machine does that that I know of. It can almost certainly be done, but arguably shouldn't. Interpreting the raw syntax is a bootstrapping technique to which it would seem foolish to commit a full-blown hardware implementation.
Re:Mill Computing in 2017 by lispm on Sunday January 15, 2017 @12:23PM (#13405038)