Subject: Re: Desperate Questions: [1]Absolute-Child-Number From: Matthias Clasen <mclasen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 17:14:27 +0200 (MET DST) |
Not so much a desparate, but perhaps a dump question: what does CPS stand for ? Regards, Matthias On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Frank Christoph wrote: > Acutally, CPS style is a very popular way of writing interpreters for eager > languages, and it is considerably easier to implement first-class continuations > in an interpreter than in a compiler. (Then again, it is considerably easier > to implement an interpreter than a compiler, period.) There are several > compilers, also, that transform the entire program into CPS form and then > emit code based on that representation because it maps very closely onto > the way computers actually work, namely sequentially and with iterative > control constructs. SML/NJ and several Scheme compilers are implemented > this way. > > -- FC > > > DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist > DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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