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Article #2575Translating into Prolog
From: dowding
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1987 16:31
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1987 16:31
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Does anyone out there have experience with implementing very high level languages in Prolog? I have been working on a translator for the Restriction Grammar (a logic grammar formalism). My problem is that the resulting Prolog code contains extremely large data structures, much larger than you would find in a program written in Prolog directly. My understanding is that most Prolog compilers are optimized to make handling small terms efficient at the expense of large terms (by using copy-on-use rather than structure-sharing). Does anyone know of any methods to use in translation to make large terms efficient? Thanks in advance, John Dowding dowding@bigburd.prc.unisys.com --
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!sri-unix!sri-spam!ames!ll-xn!cit-vax!usc-oberon!sdcrdcf!burdvax!bigburd!dowding From: dowding@bigburd.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog Subject: Translating into Prolog Message-ID: <2260@bigburd.PRC.Unisys.COM> Date: Wed, 11-Mar-87 11:31:36 EST Article-I.D.: bigburd.2260 Posted: Wed Mar 11 11:31:36 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 14-Mar-87 06:35:44 EST Sender: news@bigburd.PRC.Unisys.COM Organization: Unisys/Paoli Research Center, Paoli, PA Lines: 20