Analysis and Caching of Dependencies

Martin Abadi, Butler Lampson, and Jean-Jacques Levy

Citation: M. Abadi, B. Lampson, and J. Levy. Analysis and caching of dependencies. ACM SigPlan International Conference on Functional Programming, Philadelphia, May 1996, pp 83-91.

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Abstract:

We address the problem of dependency analysis and caching in the context of the lambda calculus. The dependencies of a lambda-term are (roughly) the parts of the lambda-term that contribute to the result of evaluating it. We introduce a mechanism for keeping track of dependencies, and discuss how to use these dependencies in caching.