[Haskell-cafe] Papers discussing interpreters for call by need?

[David Sabel]

As a starting point I would suggest
Peter Sestoft : Deriving a lazy abstract machine, Journal of Functional 
Programming 7(3), 1997
( http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.50.4314 )
Different abstract machines for call-by-need evaluation are built 
starting from Launchburys natural semantics,
the alpha renaming problem is discussed and solved by using environments 
and at the end by using a nameless
representation for variables.

Regards,
  David

Am 17.11.2010 22:02, schrieb David Sankel:
> I'm writing an interpreter for a call by need language and have been 
> doing a direct implementation of the Launchbury semantics. My problem 
> is that in the variable rule, an alpha conversion is done that, as far 
> as I understand, is going to hinder any tail call optimization.
>
> I realize that the intent of Launchbury's paper is to come up with a 
> theoretical framework for call by need, not to guide an implementation 
> per say. Is anyone aware of any papers out there that go into detail 
> on the construction of an actual interpreter?
>
> TIA,
>
> David
>
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