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<b>Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition</b>
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<H1><A NAME=SECTION003540000000000000000>B.4. Discussion</A></H1>
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<img align=bottom alt="change_begin" src="gif/change_begin.gif"><br>
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The idea of generators and gatherers was first proposed by Pavel
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Curtis. A key aspect of his proposal was the realization that
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generators and gatherers can be implemented simply and elegantly as
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closures and that these closures can be compiled very
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efficiently if certain conditions are met.
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First, the compiler must support an optimization Curtis calls
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``<tt>let</tt> eversion'' in addition to the optimization methods presented
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in [<A HREF="node368.html#RABBIT">45</A>]. If a closure is created and used entirely within a
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limited lexical scope, the scopes of any bound variables nested in the
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closure can be enlarged (everted) to enclose all the uses of the
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closure. This allows the variables to be allocated on the stack
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rather than the heap.
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Second, for a generator/gatherer closure to be compiled efficiently,
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it must be possible to determine at compile time exactly what closure
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is involved and exactly what the scope of use of the closure is.
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There are several aspects to this. The expression creating the
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generator/gatherer cannot refer to a free series variable. The
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generator/gatherer must be stored in a local variable. This
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variable must be used only in calls of <tt>next-in</tt>,
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<tt>next-out</tt>, and <tt>result-of</tt>, and not inside a closure. In
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particular the generator/gatherer cannot be stored in a data
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structure, stored in a special variable, or returned as a result
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value.
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All of the examples above satisfy these restrictions. For instance,
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once the uses of <tt>gathering</tt> and <tt>iterate</tt> have been
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optimized, the body of <tt>examp</tt> is as efficient as any loop
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performing the same computation.
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The implementation discussed in [<A HREF="node368.html#WATERSSERIESDESIGN">52</A>] includes a
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portable Common Lisp implementation of generators and gatherers. Although
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the implementation does not support optimizations of the kind discussed
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in [<A HREF="node368.html#RABBIT">45</A>], it fully optimizes uses of <tt>gathering</tt>.
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