John D. Woolley
Abstract
The research described below deals with measurement of efficiency characteristics of extensible languages having very small cores. Bell's language Proteus [1] was chosen as an object of study since it is a member of this class and moreover, contains quite general schemes for syntactic and semantic extensibility. I have implemented a Proteus interpreter in Fortran on an XDS Sigma 5, incorporating changes to Bell's original implementation as well as those of Harris [2].
An obvious serious concern in using small core languages is the efficiency of their translation and execution. This efficiency derives from two main sources: the implementation of the core language on a given machine and the implementation of the extended language(s) onto the core. The former problem is solvable by direct implementation in hardware or microprogramming and will not be considered further. The second problem we wish to consider at greater length.
- 1 James R. Bell, The design of a minimal expandable computer language, PhD Dissertation, Stanford University, 1969. Google Scholar
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- 2 Joyce C. Harris, Investigation of the extensible language Proteus, MS Thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, 1971.Google Scholar
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- MENELAUS: A system for measurement of the extensible language Proteus
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