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Program transformation with metasystem transitions

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

Valentin F. Turchin
Valentin F. Turchin
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The City College of New York
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A new program transformation method is presented. It is a further refinement of supercompilation where the supercompiler is not applied directly to the function to be transformed, but to a metafunction, namely an interpreter which computes this function using its definition and an abstract (i.e. including variables) input. It is shown that with this method such tranformations become possible which the direct application of the supercompiler cannot perform. Examples include the merging of iterative loops, function inversion, and transformation of deterministic into non-deterministic algorithms, and vice-versa.

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Journal of Functional Programming , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , July 1993 , pp. 283 - 313
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