Friday, March 28, 2003

Multi-stage Programming

"Multi-stage languages internalize the notions of runtime program generation and execution. Thus, multi-stage languages provide the programmer with the essence of partial evaluation and program specialization techniques, both of which have been shown to lead to dramatic resource-utilization gains in a wide range of applications, starting from implementations of domain-specific compilers, to high-performance operating systems. Multi-stage languages make it possible to write generic and highly- parameterized programs that do not pay unnecessary runtime overheads."

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