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DOCENG
2007
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Speculative document evaluation
Optimisation of real world Variable Data printing (VDP) documents is a difficult problem because the interdependencies between layout functions may drastically reduce the number o...
Alexander J. Macdonald, David F. Brailsford, Steve...
POPL
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
A Provably Time-Efficient Parallel Implementation of Full Speculation
that defines abstract costs for measuring or analyzing the performance of computations, (2) to supply the users with a mapping of these costs onto runtimes on various machine model...
John Greiner, Guy E. Blelloch
ICFP
2003
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Optimistic evaluation: an adaptive evaluation strategy for non-strict programs
Lazy programs are beautiful, but they are slow because they build many thunks. Simple measurements show that most of these thunks are unnecessary: they are in fact always evaluate...
Robert Ennals, Simon L. Peyton Jones