โ Scribed by Simon L Peyton Jones
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๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Book is now out of print, but it is now available online in its entirety.
All traditional implementation techniques for functional languages fail to avoid useless repetition of work. They are not optimal in their implementation of sharing, often causing a catastrophic, exponential explosion in reduction time. Optimal reduction is an innovative graph reduction technique fo
This book describes the implementation of Icon in detail. It received uniformly good reviews, with comments such as "a classic" and "a fascinating read". Highlights include: * Icon's virtual machine * the interpreter for the virtual machine * generators and goal-directed evaluation * dat