NDLI: Efficient compilation of linear recursive functions into object level loops

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Khoshnevisan, Hessam Harrison, Peter
Abstract	Whilst widely recognised as an excellent means for solving problems and for designing software, functional programming languages have suffered from their inefficient implementations on conventional computers. A route to improved runtime performance is to transform recursively defined functions into programs which execute more quickly and/or consume less space. We derive equivalent imperative programming language loops for a large class of linear recursive functions of which the tail-recursive functions form a very small subset. We first identify a small set of primitive function defining expressions for which we determine the corresponding loop-expressions. We then determine the loop-expressions for linear functions defined by any expressions which are formed from those primitives. In this way, a very general class of linear functions can be transformed automatically into loops in the parsing phase of a compiler, since the parser has in any case to determine the hierarchical structure of function definitions. Further transformation may involve specific properties of particular defining expressions, and adopt previous schemes. In addition, equivalent linear functions can be found for many non-linear ones which can therefore also be transformed into loops.
Starting Page	207
Ending Page	218
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISSN	03621340 15581160
DOI	10.1145/13310.13332
Journal	ACM SIGPLAN Notices (SIGP)
Volume Number	21
Issue Number	7
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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