| Compiling Natural Semantics 1999 Edition Contributor(s): Pettersson, Mikael (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3540659684 ISBN-13: 9783540659686 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 1999 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Compilers - Medical - Computers | Programming Languages - General |
| Dewey: 005.131 |
| LCCN: 99030642 |
| Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.82 lbs) 246 pages |
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| Publisher 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. |