Re: More on Lisp structures performance

"Tim Bradshaw (as tfb at cley dot com)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.lispworks.general
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On 23 Jan 2026, at 16:25, David McClain (as dbm at refined-audiometrics dot com) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> What limits must we observe to ensure that the var remains in a register?

You don't.  You rely on the compiler to make decisions for you, because it is now the 20th century and good compilers exist.  This is why, for instance, the 'register' keyword no longer exists in C++ and is pervasively ignored in C.  The PDP-11 (let alone the PDP-7 where the keyword originated, in B) exists only in your mind.

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