Well we should obviously NEVER EVER use any LISP derivatives (car/cdr/cons). These sort of articles make me sigh. They are narrow minded and miss the point tha

Well we should obviously NEVER EVER use any LISP derivatives (car/cdr/cons). These sort of articles make me sigh. They are narrow minded and miss the point that everything is a compromise and choosing the right compromise is the art, not a bunch of explicit rules. On the subject, I don't think a real native LISP machine would have cache locality problems. An x86 perhaps which brings in the question that doesn't the architecture define what is good and bad and isn't it a compiler's job to make this issue go away (not ours).