GammaCMC: A Novel Way of Compiling Functional Languages

Lins, R.D. and Lira, B.O. (1992) GammaCMC: A Novel Way of Compiling Functional Languages. Technical report. Chapman Hall Limited, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

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Abstract

The efficient compilation of functional languages has been shown to be a difficult task. The most successful implementations so far generate code in assembly language. This makes implementation extremely hard and machine dependent. In this paper we present Gamma CMC, a new abstract machine, in which we transfer the control of the execution flow to C, as much as possible. Gamma CMC takes advantage of the extremely low costs of procedure calls in modern RISC architectures. This produces a substantial improvement in performance, as we show here. Published in: UKC Lab.Report 7/92 (Submitted to Journal of Programming Languages Design and Imp.) (A short version of this paper will appear as Gamma CMC: Fast lazy functional languages Microprocessing & Microprogramming, April/93)

Item Type:	Monograph (Technical report)
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming,
Divisions:	Faculties > Science Technology and Medical Studies > School of Computing > Theoretical Computing Group
Depositing User:	Mark Wheadon
Date Deposited:	27 Mar 2010 16:16
Last Modified:	10 Aug 2012 15:11
Resource URI:	http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/21043 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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