Symbolics Question

From: Usman Latif (xyyzzz_at_gmail.com)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: 31 Jan 2005 01:44:52 -0800

I recently came upon a paper that details an architecture with
hardware based array bounds checking. Did the Symbolics' machines
support something like that? Also, what kind of gains are to be
expected if array bounds checking can be done by hardware?

The paper is titled:

Run-time checking in Lisp by integrating memory addressing and range
checking

The url for the paper is:

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=74958

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