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Compiling Natural Semantics

By Mikael Pettersson (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
1999
ISBN
3540659684, 9783540659686
DOI
10.1007/b71652
Open Library ID
OL9393182M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1544021 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1549
Edition
1
Pages
246\251
Topic
Computers
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-11-09 02:42:13
CompilersInterpreters; Logics and Meanings of ProgramsProgramming Languages

Description

Natural Semantics has become a popular tool among programming language researchers for specifying many aspects of programming languages. However, due to the lack of practical tools for implementation, the natural semantics formalism has so far largely been limited to theoretical applications. This book introduces the rational meta-language RML as a practical language for natural semantics specifications. The main part of the work is devoted to the problem of compiling natural semantics, actually RML, into highly efficient code. For this purpose, an effective compilation strategy for RML is developed and implemented in the rml2c compiler. This compiler ultimately produces low-level C code. Benchmarking results show that rml2c-produced code is much faster than code resulting from compilers based on alternative implementation approaches.

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