Efficient Prolog: a practical tutorial

✍ Scribed by Michael A. Covington

• Book ID: 104639277
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 650 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0269-2821
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00141758

✦ Synopsis

This tutorial presents twelve guidelines for making Prolog programs efficient. Topics covered include procedural versus declarative programming, internal representation of data, first-argument indexing, cuts, and ways to avoid CONSing.