Optimizing Closures In Lazy Functional Languages
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Date: 2010-07-08
Time: 10:30
Room:
BBL 061
Speaker: Atze van der Ploeg
Title: Optimizing closures in lazy functional languages
Abstract
We discuss an optimization of closures (delayed function applications) in implementations of lazy functional languages, such as Haskell. Usually the pointers to arguments of a closure are copied into the closure to ensure that they are accessible when the closure is evaluated. Our optimization is to omit this copying by letting a closure reference the enclosing function context.
