Publication Type |
technical report |
School or College |
College of Engineering |
Department |
Computing, School of |
Creator |
George, Lal |
Title |
Efficient evaluation of normal order through strictness information |
Date |
1987-03 |
Description |
Normal order functional languages (NOFLs) offer conceptual simplicity, expressive power and attractiveness for parallel execution. In NOFLs expressions are represented in a graphical form and transformed to the final answer using graph transformation rules. Until the G-machine project in Sweden, implementations of NOFLs on von Neumann machines were orders of magnitude slower than those for imperative languages. The central reasons for this poor performance were the high control overhead of demand evaluation and fine object code granularity (e.g. SKI combinators) used in most NOFL implementations. |
Type |
Text |
Publisher |
University of Utah |
Subject |
NOFL; strictness analysis; computers |
Subject LCSH |
Programming languages (Electronic computers) |
Language |
eng |
Bibliographic Citation |
George, L. (1987). Efficient evaluation of normal order through strictness information. |
Series |
University of Utah Computer Science Technical Report |
Relation is Part of |
ARPANET |
Format Medium |
application/pdf |
Format Extent |
192,765 Bytes |
File Name |
George-Efficent_Evaluation.pdf |
Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6j69gxv |
Setname |
ir_computersa |
ID |
94239 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j69gxv |