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> No, I don't understand that, and honestly have no clue what you're talking about.

Clearly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine#End_of_the_Lisp_m...



But we don't do this anymore, we don't build processors to cater to the particular needs of a particular high level language because we know now this approach to speeding things up is fundamentally misguided. Hardware is designed based on the types of calculations it is intended to do (DSP, GP, FP, GPU) and that's it. To do otherwise would be inefficient.




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