Institute of Computer Languages
Compilers and Languages Group
über
| Datum: | Mittwoch, 13. April 2011 |
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| Zeit: | 15:00 c.t. |
| Ort: | TU Wien, Bibliothek E185.1, Argentinierstraße 8, 4. Stock (Mitte) |
This work shows that bootstrapping of compiler generators from program specializers is a viable alternative to the third Futamura projection. To practically validate the technique, a novel partial evaluation-based compiler generator was designed and implemented for a recursive flowchart language. Among others, three-step bootstrapping was found to be faster and to produce the same compiler generator that Gomard and Jones produced two decades ago by double self-application. Compiler-generator bootstrapping has distinct properties that are not present in the classic three Futamura projections, such as the possibility to turn a specializer into a compiler generator in one step without selfapplication. Up to now the approach of hand-writing compiler generators has only been used to avoid difficulties when specializing strongly-typed languages, not as a first step towards compiler-generator bootstrapping.
Robert Glück is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the
University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He received his Habilitation and
doctor degree from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, where
he also worked as Universitätsassistent. He was research assistant at
the City University of New York, USA, and received the
Erwin-Schrödinger-Fellowship of the Austrian Science Foundation
(FWF). For four years he worked at Waseda University, Tokyo, as a
researcher and project leader for the Japan Science and Technology
Agency (JST) and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
(JSPS). His main research interests include advanced programming
languages, automatic program transformation, and metaprogramming
techniques. Robert Glück is currently a visiting professor at TU
Vienna, where he delivers a lecture course on "Programminvertierung
und Reversibles Rechnen" as part of an ERASMUS/LLP Exchange
Agreement between TU Vienna and the University of Copenhagen.
(http://www.diku.dk/hjemmesider/ansatte/glueck/)
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