11:48:16White_Flamerigidus: it sounds like you're more interested in compilers? a big issue there is how to cast the various calling conventions & scopes into an ABI in some specific processor
11:48:59White_FlameI learned most of that by looking at the disassemblies of various functions to see what the implementation did with it
11:50:32White_Flamescheme can be fundamentally different than other lisps because of continuations and needing to be able to restore stack state to some previous condition, sometimes by having the stack frames on the heap. other lisps have a more "normal" stack situation
11:59:23jcowanWhite_Flame: Unless you are using Cheney on the MTA
11:59:44jcowanin which case the heap nursery is the stack
11:59:58White_Flameyeah, there are no hard absolutes in strategy