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SAC
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
General constant expressions for system programming languages
Most mainstream system programming languages provide support for builtin types, and extension mechanisms through userdefined types. They also come with a notion of constant expre...
Gabriel Dos Reis, Bjarne Stroustrup
PPPJ
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Phase detection using trace compilation
Dynamic compilers can optimize application code specifically for observed code behavior. Such behavior does not have to be stable across the entire program execution to be bene...
Christian Wimmer, Marcelo Silva Cintra, Michael Be...
OOPSLA
2005
Springer
14 years 29 days ago
Parametric polymorphism for software component architectures
Parametric polymorphism has become a common feature of mainstream programming languages, but software component architectures have lagged behind and do not support it. We examine ...
Cosmin E. Oancea, Stephen M. Watt
SPE
1998
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13 years 7 months ago
Timing Trials, or the Trials of Timing: Experiments with Scripting and User-Interface Languages
This paper describes some basic experiments to see how fast various popular scripting and user-interface languages run on a spectrum of representative tasks. We found enormous var...
Brian W. Kernighan, Christopher J. Van Wyk
ICFP
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Implicit phasing for R6RS libraries
The forthcoming Revised6 Report on Scheme differs from previous reports in that the language it describes is structured as a set of libraries. It also provides a syntax for defini...
Abdulaziz Ghuloum, R. Kent Dybvig