Título: Performance and Evaluation of LISP Systems
Autor: Gabriel
Sinopse: This final report of the Stanford Lisp Performance Study, conducted over a three yearperiod by the author, describes implementation techniques, performance tradeoffs, benchmarkingtechniques, and performance results for all of the major Lisp dialects in use today. A popularhighlevel programming language used predominantly in artificial intelligence, Lisp was the firstlanguage to concentrate on working with symbols instead of numbers. Lisp was introduced by JohnMcCarthy in the early 1960s (McCarthy's LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual published in 1962 is availablein paperback from The MIT Press) and its continuous development has enabled it to remain dominant inartificial intelligence.Performance and Evaluation of Lisp Systems is the first book to presentdescriptions on the Lisp implementation techniques actually in use and can serve as a handbook tothe implementation details of all of the various current Lisp expressions. It provides detailedperformance information using the tools of benchmarking (the process of utilizing standardizedcomputer programs to test the processing power of different computer systems) to measure the variousLisp systems, and provides an understanding of the technical tradeoffs made during theimplementation of a Lisp system.The study is divided into three major parts. The first provides thetheoretical background, outlining the factors that go into evaluating the performance of a Lispsystem. The second part presents the Lisp implementations: MacLisp, MIT CADR, LMI Lambda, S-I Lisp,Franz Lisp, MIL, Spice Lisp, Vax Common Lisp, Portable Standard Lisp, and Xerox D-Machine. A finalpart describes the benchmark suite that was used during the major portion of the study and theresults themselves.Richard P. Gabriel is President and Chief Technical Officer, Lucid, Inc., andConsulting Associate Professor, Stanford University. Performance and Evaluation of Lisp Systems isincluded in the Computer Systems series, Research Reports and Notes, edited by HerbSchwetman.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Performance and Evaluation of LISP Systems”, de Gabriel, publicado pela editora MIT Press, em 1986 e com 304 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: MIT Press
Páginas: 304
Ano: 1986
Edição: First Edition
Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN: 9780262571937
ISBN13: 9780262571937
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