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Modules are an indispensable mechanism for providing abstraction to programming languages. To reduce the abstraction overhead in the usage of modules, Watanabe et al. proposed a language for generating and manipulating code of modules, and implemented it via a translation to plain MetaOCaml. Unfortunately, their solution has a serious problem of code explosion if functors are repeatedly applied to modules. Another problem in their solution is that it does not allow nested modules.
This paper proposes a refined translation for a two-stage typed language with module generation where nested modules are allowed. Our translation does not suffer from the code-duplication problem. The key idea is to use the genlet operator in latest MetaOCaml, which performs let insertion at the code-generation time to allow sharing of code fragments. To our knowledge, our work is the first to apply genlet to code generation for modules. We conduct an experiment using a microbenchmark, and the result shows that our method is effective to reduce the size of generated code that would have been exponentially large.
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Year | DOI | Venue |
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2020 | 10.1145/3372884.3373160 | Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation |
Keywords | DocType | ISBN |
Modules, Program Generation, Program Transformation, Type Safety | Conference | 978-1-4503-7096-7 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 0 |
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3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Yuhi Sato | 1 | 0 | 0.68 |
| Yukiyoshi Kameyama | 2 | 171 | 17.29 |
| Takahisa Watanabe | 3 | 0 | 0.68 |