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Evaluating Functional Programs on the Flagship Machine

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Abstract

The Flagship project has the aim of designing a parallel computer system for the evaluation of declarative languages. The physical architecture of the machine consists of a set of closely coupled processor/store pairs communicating over a high performance communications network. A functional program to be evaluated is compiled into a Super-Combinator expression graph which is then simplified by graph reduction. The paper discusses the Flagship machine architecture and describes in detail the computational model which defines how a functional program is represented and reduced. The issues underlying the design of the main features of the computational model are examined.

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Author(s): Watson P, Watson I

Editor(s): Kahn, G.

Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

Publication status: Published

Conference Name: Functional Programming Languages and Computer Architectures Conference

Year of Conference: 1987

Pages: 80-97

ISSN: 0302-9743

Publisher: Springer-Verlag

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-18317-5_6

DOI: 10.1007/3-540-18317-5_6

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Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

ISBN: 9783540183174

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