Compilation Semantics (original) (raw)

ANSI Common Lisp 3 Evaluation and Compilation 3.2 Compilation

3.2.2 Compilation Semantics

Conceptually, compilation is a process that traverses code, performs certain kinds of syntactic and semantic analyses using information (such as proclamations and macro definitions) present in the_compilation environment_, and produces equivalent, possibly more efficient code.

3.2.2.1 Compiler Macros
3.2.2.2 Minimal Compilation
3.2.2.3 Semantic Constraints