Johan Nordlander

  1. Positive Supercompilation for a Higher-Order Call-By-Value Language.

    Authors: Peter A. Jonsson, Johan Nordlander
    Subjects: Programming Languages
    Abstract

    Previous deforestation and supercompilation algorithms may introduce
    accidental termination when applied to call-by-value programs. This hides
    looping bugs from the programmer, and changes the behavior of a program
    depending on whether it is optimized or not. We present a supercompilation
    algorithm for a higher-order call-by-value language and prove that the
    algorithm both terminates and preserves termination properties. This algorithm
    utilizes strictness information to decide whether to substitute or not and
    compares favorably with previous call-by-name transformations.

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