Fast Partial Evaluation of Pattern Matching in Strings

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  • Mads Sig Ager
  • Olivier Danvy
  • Henning Korsholm Rohde

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https://doi.org/10.7146/brics.v11i40.21865

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We show how to obtain all of Knuth, Morris, and Pratt's linear-time string matcher by specializing a quadratic-time string matcher with respect to a pattern string. Although it has been known for 15 years how to obtain this linear matcher by partial evaluation of a quadratic one, how to obtain it in linear time has remained an open problem.

Obtaining a linear matcher by partial evaluation of a quadratic one is achieved by performing its backtracking at specialization time and memoizing its results. We show (1) how to rewrite the source matcher such that its static intermediate computations can be shared at specialization time and (2) how to extend the memoization capabilities of a partial evaluator to static functions. Such an extended partial evaluator, if its memoization is implemented efficiently, specializes the rewritten source matcher in linear time.

Finally, we show that the method also applies to a variant of Boyer and Moore's string matcher.

Supersedes BRICS-RS-03-11 and BRICS-RS-03-20.

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2004-12-11

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Ager, M. S., Danvy, O., & Rohde, H. K. (2004). Fast Partial Evaluation of Pattern Matching in Strings. BRICS Report Series, 11(40). https://doi.org/10.7146/brics.v11i40.21865

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Nr. 40 (2004): RS-40 Fast Partial Evaluation of Pattern Matching in Strings

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