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A Prolog compiler and its extension for OR-parallelism
RISE, Swedish ICT, SICS, Computer Systems Laboratory.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3079-8095
1990 (English)Report (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This report describes algorithms for the compiler component of the Aurora Or-Parallel Prolog system. The compiler translates one Prolog clause at a time into a sequence of abstract instructions. The instruction set is based on the sequential Warren Ab- stract Machine (WAM) with extensions for full Prolog, shallow backtracking, memory management and garbage collection, and for the SRI model of or-parallel execution of Prolog. Most of the described algorithms apply to compilation of sequential Prolog programs. The extensions introduced to support or-parallelism are minor, and concern pruning operators (cut and commit) and compile-time allocation of binding array offsets for permanent variables (generalised environment trimming). Code generation proper is kept separate from register allocation, and uses heuristics for finding a compilation order which minimises the number of register-register copies. After such copies have been coalesced where possible, register allocation is performed in a single pass over the intermediate code. The various compilation phases are described in detail, and the implementation is compared with some other compilers.

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Kista, Sweden: Swedish Institute of Computer Science , 1990, 1. , p. 65
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SICS Research Report, ISSN 0283-3638 ; R90:06
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Computer and Information Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-21338OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-21338DiVA, id: diva2:1041372
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Original report number R90006.

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