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- T was a highly influential Lisp implementation known for its clean design and optimization.
- Developed at Yale in the early 1980s by Jonathan Rees, T was an optimizing native-code Scheme system, a radical choice at the time.
- T introduced innovative implementation techniques like efficient data representations, a depth-first garbage collector, and fine-grain interrupt handling.
- The compiler, Orbit, used CPS (continuation-passing style) as an intermediate representation and was among the most optimizing Scheme compilers for years.