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Explaining the lazy Krivine machine using explicit substitution and addresses

Frederic Lang

Abstract

In a previous paper, Benaissa, Lescanne, and Rose, have extended the weak lambda-calculus of explicit substitution lambda-sigma-w with addresses, so that it gives an account of the sharing implemented by lazy functional language interpreters. We show in this paper that their calculus, called lambda-sigma-w-a, fits well to the lazy Krivine machine, which describes the core of a lazy (call-by-need) functional programming language implementation. The lazy Krivine machine implements term evaluation sharing, that is essential for efficiency of such languages. The originality of our proof is that it gives a very detailed account of the implemented strategy.
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inria-00198756 , version 1 (17-12-2007)

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Frederic Lang. Explaining the lazy Krivine machine using explicit substitution and addresses. Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation, 2007. ⟨inria-00198756⟩
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