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The bologna optimal higher-order machine

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

Andrea Asperti ,
Cecilia Giovannetti  and
Andrea Naletto
Andrea Asperti
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica, P.zza di Porta S.Donato 5, Bologna, Italy (e-mail: asperti@cs.unibo.it)
Cecilia Giovannetti
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica, P.zza di Porta S.Donato 5, Bologna, Italy (e-mail: asperti@cs.unibo.it)
Andrea Naletto
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica, P.zza di Porta S.Donato 5, Bologna, Italy (e-mail: asperti@cs.unibo.it)
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The Bologna Optimal Higher-order Machine (BOHM) is a prototype implementation of the core of a functional language based on (a variant of) Lamping's optimal graph reduction technique (Lamping, 1990; Gonthier et al., 1992a; Asperti, 1994). The source language is a sugared λ-calculus enriched with booleans, integers, lists and basic operations on these data types (following the guidelines of Interaction Systems – Asperti and Laneve (1993b, 1994), Laneve (1993)). In this paper, we shall describe BOHM's general architecture (comprising the garbage collector), and give a large set of benchmarks and experimental results.

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Journal of Functional Programming , Volume 6 , Issue 6 , November 1996 , pp. 763 - 810
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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