On One-Pass CPS Transformations

Forfattere

  • Olivier Danvy
  • Kevin Millikin
  • Lasse R. Nielsen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/brics.v14i6.21929

Resumé

We bridge two distinct approaches to one-pass CPS transformations, i.e., CPS transformations that reduce administrative redexes at transformation time instead of in a post-processing phase. One approach is compositional and higher-order, and is independently due to Appel, Danvy and Filinski, and Wand, building on Plotkin's seminal work. The other is non-compositional and based on a reduction semantics for the lambda-calculus, and is due to Sabry and Felleisen. To relate the two approaches, we use three tools: Reynolds's defunctionalization and its left inverse, refunctionalization; a special case of fold-unfold fusion due to Ohori and Sasano, fixed-point promotion; and an implementation technique for reduction semantics due to Danvy and Nielsen, refocusing.

This work is directly applicable to transforming programs into monadic normal form.

Downloads

Publiceret

2007-03-12

Citation/Eksport

Danvy, O., Millikin, K., & Nielsen, L. R. (2007). On One-Pass CPS Transformations. BRICS Report Series, 14(6). https://doi.org/10.7146/brics.v14i6.21929

Nummer

Nr. 6 (2007): RS-6 On One-Pass CPS Transformations

Sektion

Artikler

Licens

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

    1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

    1. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

  1. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).