A delivery system for REDUCE

Authors:
J. Fitch
Affiliations:
School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
Venue:
ISSAC '90 Proceedings of the international symposium on Symbolic and algebraic computation
Year:
1990

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Abstract

A non-LISP delivery system for REDUCE is described and compared with other implementations of REDUCE for speed and size, as well as ease of porting. The mechanism for this delivery system is direct compilation of the REDUCE sources into ANSI C, which is then compiled and linked together with some support code for arithmetic and space administration. The resulting system is compared with a number of other implementations of true REDUCE, and is shown to be similar in size, but faster. The time to port the system is measured in hours. Also considered are the difficulties in this method of delivering LISP code, and an assessment of the loss of flexibility.