Implementation of Functional Languages: 8th International Workshop, IFL’96 Bad Godesberg, Germany, September 16–18, 1996 Selected Papers

Lee Braine, Chris Clack (auth.), Werner Kluge (eds.)3540632379, 9783540632375

This book contains the strictly refereed post-workshop proceedings originating from the 8th International Workshop on the Implementation of Functional Languages, held in Bad Godesberg, Germany, in September 1996.
The 15 thoroughly revised full papers presented were selected after a second round of reviewing from the 26 contributions accepted for presentation at the workshop. Also included is an overview by the volume editor. The volume addresses various implementational issues of functional languages including parallel implementations, language concepts and design, type systems, interpretation and compilation techniques, automatic program generation, concurrent processing, machine architectures, runtime profiling and application programming.

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Table of contents :
Introducing CLOVER: An object-oriented functional language….Pages 1-20
Active patterns….Pages 21-40
Context patterns in Haskell….Pages 41-57
The GRIN project: A highly optimising back end for lazy functional languages….Pages 58-84
On programming scientific applications in SAC — A functional language extended by a subsystem for high-level array operations….Pages 85-104
The implementation and efficiency of arrays in clean 1.1….Pages 105-124
Implementing the conjugate gradient algorithm in a functional language….Pages 125-140
An implementation of Eden on top of concurrent Haskell….Pages 141-161
Coordinating functional processes using Petri nets….Pages 162-183
Making a packet: Cost-effective communication for a parallel graph reducer….Pages 184-199
The results of: Profiling large-scale lazy functional programs….Pages 200-221
Two-pass heap profiling: A matter of life and death….Pages 222-232
First class file I/O….Pages 233-246
A type-based algorithm for the control-flow analysis of higher-order concurrent programs….Pages 247-266
Calculating a functional module for binary search trees….Pages 267-284