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Compiling natural semantics / Mikael Pettersson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Lecture notes in computer science ; 1549.Publication details: Berlin ; New York : Springer, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 240 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783540488231
  • 3540488235
  • 9788354048824
  • 8354048829
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:Pettersson, Mikael.: Compiling natural semanticsDDC classification:
  • 005.13/1 21
LOC classification:
  • QA76.7 .P493 1999
Other classification:
  • 54.10
Online resources:
Contents:
1 Introduction -- 2 Preliminaries -- 3 The Design of RML -- 4 Examples -- 5 Implementation Overview -- 6 Reducing Nondeterminism -- 7 Compiling Pattern Matching -- 8 Compiling Continuations -- 9 Simulating Tailcalls in C -- 10 Performance Evaluation -- 11. Concluding Remarks -- A. The Definition of RML.
Summary: Natural Semantics has become a popular tool among programming language researchers for specifying many aspects of programming languages. However, due to the lack of practical tools for implementation, the natural semantics formalism has so far largely been limited to theoretical applications. This book introduces the rational meta-language RML as a practical language for natural semantics specifications. The main part of the work is devoted to the problem of compiling natural semantics, actually RML, into highly efficient code. For this purpose, an effective compilation strategy for RML is developed and implemented in the rml2c compiler. This compiler ultimately produces low-level C code. Benchmarking results show that rml2c-produced code is much faster than code resulting from compilers based on alternative implementation approaches.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Natural Semantics has become a popular tool among programming language researchers for specifying many aspects of programming languages. However, due to the lack of practical tools for implementation, the natural semantics formalism has so far largely been limited to theoretical applications. This book introduces the rational meta-language RML as a practical language for natural semantics specifications. The main part of the work is devoted to the problem of compiling natural semantics, actually RML, into highly efficient code. For this purpose, an effective compilation strategy for RML is developed and implemented in the rml2c compiler. This compiler ultimately produces low-level C code. Benchmarking results show that rml2c-produced code is much faster than code resulting from compilers based on alternative implementation approaches.

1 Introduction -- 2 Preliminaries -- 3 The Design of RML -- 4 Examples -- 5 Implementation Overview -- 6 Reducing Nondeterminism -- 7 Compiling Pattern Matching -- 8 Compiling Continuations -- 9 Simulating Tailcalls in C -- 10 Performance Evaluation -- 11. Concluding Remarks -- A. The Definition of RML.

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