NDLI: A type based sharing analysis for update avoidance and optimisation

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Gustavsson, Jörgen
Abstract	Sharing of evaluation is crucial for the efficiency of lazy functional languages, but unfortunately the machinery to implement it carries an inherent overhead. In abstract machines this overhead shows up as the cost of performing updates, many of them actually unnecessary, and also in the cost of the associated bookkeeping, that is keeping track of when and where to update. In spineless abstract machines, such as the STG-machine and the TIM, this bookkeeping consists of pushing, checking for and popping update markers. Checking for update markers is a very frequent operation and indeed the implementation of the STG-machine has been optimised for fast update marker checks at the expense of making the pushing and popping of update markers more costly.In this paper we present a type based sharing analysis that can determine when updates can be safely omitted and marker checks bypassed. The type system is proved sound with respect to the lazy Krivine machine. We have implemented the analysis and the preliminary benchmarks seem very promising. Most notably, virtually all update marker checks can be avoided. This may make the tradeoffs of current implementations obsolete and calls for new abstract machine designs.
Starting Page	39
Ending Page	50
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISSN	03621340 15581160
DOI	10.1145/291251.289427
Journal	ACM SIGPLAN Notices (SIGP)
Volume Number	34
Issue Number	1
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1983-05-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Software

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