You make some specific claims here that sound a little odd to this LISP and assembly language hacker.
Assembly language doesn't provide any datatypes. LISP does. Assembly language doesn't provide any type checking. LISP does. Assembly language doesn't provide automatic storage reclamation. LISP does. Assembly language doesn't provide naming. LISP does.
You also make a claim about L1 caches and locality of reference. Every LISP compiler writer, and every LISP garbage collector writer, knows about CDR-coding. We also know about how Cheney copying garbage collectors and their descendants like the Baker incremental collector compact data, precisely for locality of reference. The compiler writer of course is thinking about cache performance and how lines are mapped in particular target architectures.
You should probably educate yourself a little more about LISP if you are so interested in it as to make statements in a public forum.
Assembly language doesn't provide any datatypes. LISP does. Assembly language doesn't provide any type checking. LISP does. Assembly language doesn't provide automatic storage reclamation. LISP does. Assembly language doesn't provide naming. LISP does.
You also make a claim about L1 caches and locality of reference. Every LISP compiler writer, and every LISP garbage collector writer, knows about CDR-coding. We also know about how Cheney copying garbage collectors and their descendants like the Baker incremental collector compact data, precisely for locality of reference. The compiler writer of course is thinking about cache performance and how lines are mapped in particular target architectures.
You should probably educate yourself a little more about LISP if you are so interested in it as to make statements in a public forum.