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Re:Lisp in 99 lines of C and how to write one yourself [pdf] by deanmen on Thursday July 14, 2022 @05:34PM (#32101728)
Trampolines
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Re:Lisp in 99 lines of C and how to write one yourself [pdf] by convolvatron on Thursday July 14, 2022 @07:01PM (#32102416)
as long as your arguments never spill, you can also make an asm insert macro that does a jump instead of a call
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Re:Lisp in 99 lines of C and how to write one yourself [pdf] by earleybird on Thursday July 14, 2022 @08:42PM (#32103173)
The purpose being 'rename + goto'?
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Re:Lisp in 99 lines of C and how to write one yourself [pdf] by convolvatron on Thursday July 14, 2022 @09:19PM (#32103498)
the purpose being to be able to use generic C function bodies as continuations without having to trampoline the stack
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