Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Distribution and Support
1.2 Command Line Options
1.3 Credits
Chapter 2 Design Choices and Extensions
2.1 Data Types
2.1.1 Integers
2.1.2 Floats
2.1.3 Characters
2.1.4 Array Initialization
2.1.5 Hash tables
2.2 Default Interrupts for Lisp
2.3 Implementation-specific Packages
2.4 Hierarchical Packages
2.4.1 Introduction
2.4.2 Relative package names
2.4.3 Compatibility with ANSI Common Lisp
2.5 Package locks
2.5.1 Rationale
2.5.2 Disabling package locks
2.6 The Editor
2.7 Garbage Collection
2.7.1 GC Parameters
2.7.2 Generational GC
2.7.3 Weak Pointers
2.7.4 Finalization
2.8 Describe
2.9 The Inspector
2.9.1 The Graphical Interface
2.9.2 The TTY Inspector
2.10 Load
2.11 The Reader
2.11.1 Reader Extensions
2.11.2 Reader Parameters
2.12 Stream Extensions
2.13 Simple Streams
2.14 Running Programs from Lisp
2.14.1 Process Accessors
2.15 Saving a Core Image
2.16 Pathnames
2.16.1 Unix Pathnames
2.16.2 Wildcard Pathnames
2.16.3 Logical Pathnames
2.16.4 Search Lists
2.16.5 Predefined Search-Lists
2.16.6 Search-List Operations
2.16.7 Search List Example
2.17 Filesystem Operations
2.17.1 Wildcard Matching
2.17.2 File Name Completion
2.17.3 Miscellaneous Filesystem Operations
2.18 Time Parsing and Formatting
2.19 Random Number Generation
2.19.1 Original Generator
2.19.2 New Generator
2.19.3 MT-19987 Generator
2.20 Lisp Threads
2.21 Lisp Library
2.22 Generalized Function Names
2.23 CLOS
2.23.1 Primary Method Errors
2.23.2 Slot Type Checking
2.23.3 Slot Access Optimization
2.23.4 Inlining Methods in Effective Methods
2.23.5 Effective Method Precomputation
2.23.6 Sealing
2.23.7 Method Tracing and Profiling
2.23.8 Misc
2.24 Differences from ANSI Common Lisp
2.24.1 Extensions
2.25 Function Wrappers
2.26 Dynamic-Extent Declarations
2.26.1
&rest
argument lists
2.26.2 Closures
2.26.3
list
,
list*
, and
cons
2.27 Modular Arithmetic
2.28 Extension to REQUIRE
Chapter 3 The Debugger
3.1 Debugger Introduction
3.2 The Command Loop
3.3 Stack Frames
3.3.1 Stack Motion
3.3.2 How Arguments are Printed
3.3.3 Function Names
3.3.4 Funny Frames
3.3.5 Debug Tail Recursion
3.3.6 Unknown Locations and Interrupts
3.4 Variable Access
3.4.1 Variable Value Availability
3.4.2 Note On Lexical Variable Access
3.5 Source Location Printing
3.5.1 How the Source is Found
3.5.2 Source Location Availability
3.6 Compiler Policy Control
3.7 Exiting Commands
3.8 Information Commands
3.9 Breakpoint Commands
3.9.1 Breakpoint Example
3.10 Function Tracing
3.10.1 Encapsulation Functions
3.11 Specials
Chapter 4 The Compiler
4.1 Compiler Introduction
4.2 Calling the Compiler
4.3 Compilation Units
4.3.1 Undefined Warnings
4.4 Interpreting Error Messages
4.4.1 The Parts of the Error Message
4.4.2 The Original and Actual Source
4.4.3 The Processing Path
4.4.4 Error Severity
4.4.5 Errors During Macroexpansion
4.4.6 Read Errors
4.4.7 Error Message Parameterization
4.5 Types in Python
4.5.1 Compile Time Type Errors
4.5.2 Precise Type Checking
4.5.3 Weakened Type Checking
4.6 Getting Existing Programs to Run
4.7 Compiler Policy
4.7.1 The Optimize Declaration
4.7.2 The Optimize-Interface Declaration
4.8 Open Coding and Inline Expansion
Chapter 5 Advanced Compiler Use and Efficiency Hints
5.1 Advanced Compiler Introduction
5.1.1 Types
5.1.2 Optimization
5.1.3 Function Call
5.1.4 Representation of Objects
5.1.5 Writing Efficient Code
5.2 More About Types in Python
5.2.1 More Types Meaningful
5.2.2 Canonicalization
5.2.3 Member Types
5.2.4 Union Types
5.2.5 The Empty Type
5.2.6 Function Types
5.2.7 The Values Declaration
5.2.8 Structure Types
5.2.9 The Freeze-Type Declaration
5.2.10 Type Restrictions
5.2.11 Type Style Recommendations
5.3 Type Inference
5.3.1 Variable Type Inference
5.3.2 Local Function Type Inference
5.3.3 Global Function Type Inference
5.3.4 Operation Specific Type Inference
5.3.5 Dynamic Type Inference
5.3.6 Type Check Optimization
5.4 Source Optimization
5.4.1 Let Optimization
5.4.2 Constant Folding
5.4.3 Unused Expression Elimination
5.4.4 Control Optimization
5.4.5 Unreachable Code Deletion
5.4.6 Multiple Values Optimization
5.4.7 Source to Source Transformation
5.4.8 Style Recommendations
5.5 Tail Recursion
5.5.1 Tail Recursion Exceptions
5.6 Local Call
5.6.1 Self-Recursive Calls
5.6.2 Let Calls
5.6.3 Closures
5.6.4 Local Tail Recursion
5.6.5 Return Values
5.7 Block Compilation
5.7.1 Block Compilation Semantics
5.7.2 Block Compilation Declarations
5.7.3 Compiler Arguments
5.7.4 Practical Difficulties
5.7.5 Context Declarations
5.7.6 Context Declaration Example
5.8 Inline Expansion
5.8.1 Inline Expansion Recording
5.8.2 Semi-Inline Expansion
5.8.3 The Maybe-Inline Declaration
5.9 Byte Coded Compilation
5.10 Object Representation
5.10.1 Think Before You Use a List
5.10.2 Structure Representation
5.10.3 Arrays
5.10.4 Vectors
5.10.5 Bit-Vectors
5.10.6 Hashtables
5.11 Numbers
5.11.1 Descriptors
5.11.2 Non-Descriptor Representations
5.11.3 Variables
5.11.4 Generic Arithmetic
5.11.5 Fixnums
5.11.6 Word Integers
5.11.7 Floating Point Efficiency
5.11.8 Specialized Arrays
5.11.9 Specialized Structure Slots
5.11.10 Interactions With Local Call
5.11.11 Representation of Characters
5.12 General Efficiency Hints
5.12.1 Compile Your Code
5.12.2 Avoid Unnecessary Consing
5.12.3 Complex Argument Syntax
5.12.4 Mapping and Iteration
5.12.5 Trace Files and Disassembly
5.13 Efficiency Notes
5.13.1 Type Uncertainty
5.13.2 Efficiency Notes and Type Checking
5.13.3 Representation Efficiency Notes
5.13.4 Verbosity Control
5.14 Profiling
5.14.1 Profile Interface
5.14.2 Profiling Techniques
5.14.3 Nested or Recursive Calls
5.14.4 Clock resolution
5.14.5 Profiling overhead
5.14.6 Additional Timing Utilities
5.14.7 A Note on Timing
5.14.8 Benchmarking Techniques
Chapter 6 UNIX Interface
6.1 Reading the Command Line
6.2 Useful Variables
6.3 Lisp Equivalents for C Routines
6.4 Type Translations
6.5 System Area Pointers
6.6 Unix System Calls
6.7 File Descriptor Streams
6.8 Unix Signals
6.8.1 Changing Signal Handlers
6.8.2 Examples of Signal Handlers
Chapter 7 Event Dispatching with SERVE-EVENT
7.1 Object Sets
7.2 The SERVE-EVENT Function
7.3 Using SERVE-EVENT with Unix File Descriptors
7.4 Using SERVE-EVENT with the CLX Interface to X
7.4.1 Without Object Sets
7.4.2 With Object Sets
7.5 A SERVE-EVENT Example
7.5.1 Without Object Sets Example
7.5.2 With Object Sets Example
Chapter 8 Alien Objects
8.1 Introduction to Aliens
8.2 Alien Types
8.2.1 Defining Alien Types
8.2.2 Alien Types and Lisp Types
8.2.3 Alien Type Specifiers
8.2.4 The C-Call Package
8.3 Alien Operations
8.3.1 Alien Access Operations
8.3.2 Alien Coercion Operations
8.3.3 Alien Dynamic Allocation
8.4 Alien Variables
8.4.1 Local Alien Variables
8.4.2 External Alien Variables
8.5 Alien Data Structure Example
8.6 Loading Unix Object Files
8.7 Alien Function Calls
8.7.1 The alien-funcall Primitive
8.7.2 The def-alien-routine Macro
8.7.3 def-alien-routine Example
8.7.4 Calling Lisp from C
8.7.5 Callback Example
8.7.6 Accessing Lisp Arrays
8.8 Step-by-Step Alien Example
Chapter 9 Interprocess Communication under LISP
9.1 The REMOTE Package
9.1.1 Connecting Servers and Clients
9.1.2 Remote Evaluations
9.1.3 Remote Objects
9.2 The WIRE Package
9.2.1 Untagged Data
9.2.2 Tagged Data
9.2.3 Making Your Own Wires
9.3 Out-Of-Band Data
Chapter 10 Networking Support
10.1 Byte Order Converters
10.2 Domain Name Services (DNS)
10.3 Binding to Interfaces
10.4 Accepting Connections
10.5 Connecting
10.6 Out-of-Band Data
10.7 Unbound Sockets, Socket Options, and Closing Sockets
Chapter 11 Debugger Programmer's Interface
11.1 DI Exceptional Conditions
11.1.1 Debug-conditions
11.1.2 Debug-errors
11.2 Debug-variables
11.3 Frames
11.4 Debug-functions
11.5 Debug-blocks
11.6 Breakpoints
11.7 Code-locations
11.8 Debug-sources
11.9 Source Translation Utilities
Chapter 12 Cross-Referencing Facility
12.1 Populating the cross-reference database
12.2 Querying the cross-reference database
12.3 Example usage
12.4 Limitations of the cross-referencing facility
