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Performance and Evaluation of Lisp Systems - Dreamsongs

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274<br />

Well, it certainly is hard to explain<br />

because there are several<br />

different cases. There is a prefetcher. . . .<br />

— Bruce Edwardsexplaining the 3600’s instruction cache. (September 18, 1984.)<br />

This article couldn’t do nearly as much damage<br />

as the Gabriel <strong>and</strong> Brooks “critique”<br />

or the upcoming publication<br />

<strong>of</strong> last year’s <strong>Lisp</strong> benchmarks by MIT Press.<br />

— Anonymous commenting on the author <strong>of</strong> this book. (April 1985)<br />

Would you like to volunteer?<br />

— Peter Deutsch—the question I should have said ‘no’ to. (February 27, 1981)

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