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Re: CPS transformation and partial evaluation

To: djurfeldt at nada dot kth dot se
Subject: Re: CPS transformation and partial evaluation
From: Jost Boekemeier <jostobfe at linux dot zrz dot TU-Berlin dot DE>
Date: 14 Aug 2000 19:46:05 +0200
Cc: guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <m3n1im7t4m.fsf@indy.STUDENT.CWRU.Edu> <87g0obleb6.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <m3ya23wdh8.fsf@indy.STUDENT.CWRU.Edu> <xy7r97vz3a0.fsf_-_@mdj.nada.kth.se> <p2tlmy2r441.fsf_-_@ruebe.zrz.tu-berlin.de> <xy74s4q5ra4.fsf@mdj.nada.kth.se>

Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se> writes:

> That sounds plausible.  He and his students have been studying the
> relationship between transformations made in the source language and
> in CPS. 

Yes, if I remember correctly he goes as far as saying that most implementations
which make use of cps transformation to optimize the code partially revert the
transformation when generating machine code.  

>   http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/sabry94is.html
[...]
>   A. Appel (1992) "Compiling With Continuations", Cambridge U Press

Yup, thanks!

Jost

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- Translating into Scheme, not byte code
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