Compiling Natural Semantics

1999
ISBN: 978-3-540-65968-6
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Buch, Englisch, Band 1549, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 406 g

Reihe: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pettersson, Mikael

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Compiler
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Natürliche Sprachen & Maschinelle Übersetzung
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Programmier- und Skriptsprachen
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Prozedurale Programmierung
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Programmierung: Methoden und Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.