GRIN as intermediate representation for Lazy Functional Languages
Shae Erisson points out Urban Boquist’s GRIN thesis. It’s very interesting: the choice of the GRIN intermediate language allows a number of good optimisations. A control-flow analysis is done to enable inlining of evals. The information the analysis computes is similar to the kind of information you get from dynamic profiling in a Self-like system - which is why I’m finding it interesting. I’m building a lazy functional object-oriented language, and I want to use Self-like dynamic optimisation techniques to recover efficiency. It’s nice to see it being done!
3 comments November 1st, 2005 tonyg