I posted this because I was reading a quote of Paul Grahm, essentially saying that HLL's require less skill to implement your ideas in. I was reminded of all o

I posted this because I was reading a quote of Paul Grahm, essentially saying that HLL's require less skill to implement your ideas in. I was reminded of all of the research and work I did trying to learn to write lisp code that runs reasonably fast. The point being that writing fast code in a HLL like lisp requires knowledge about the different techniques that are being used by your compiler to make your code efficient. Anyway, this archive is definitely one of the better endpoints that I ran into on that search. My personal favorites are Cheney on the MTA and the paper about a lisp architecture based entirely on destructive operations.