Partial Evaluation of the Euclidian Algorithm (Extended Version)

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  • Olivier Danvy
  • Mayer Goldberg

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https://doi.org/10.7146/brics.v4i1.18780

Resumé

Some programs are easily amenable to partial evaluation because
their control flow clearly depends on one of their parameters. Specializing
such programs with respect to this parameter eliminates the
associated interpretive overhead. Some other programs, however, do
not exhibit this interpreter-like behavior. Each of them presents a challenge
for partial evaluation. The Euclidian algorithm is one of them,
and in this article, we make it amenable to partial evaluation.
We observe that the number of iterations in the Euclidian algorithm
is bounded by a number that can be computed given either of the two
arguments. We thus rephrase this algorithm using bounded recursion.
The resulting program is better suited for automatic unfolding and
thus for partial evaluation. Its specialization is efficient.
Keywords: partial evaluation, scientific computation.

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1997-01-01

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Danvy, O., & Goldberg, M. (1997). Partial Evaluation of the Euclidian Algorithm (Extended Version). BRICS Report Series, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.7146/brics.v4i1.18780

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Nr. 1 (1997): RS-01 Partial Evaluation of the Euclidian Algorithm (Extended Version)

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