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Simon Marlow and Simon Peyton Jones. 12 pages, March 2003.
Higher-order languages that encourage currying are implemented using one of two basic evaluation models: push/enter or eval/apply. Implementors use their intuition and qualitative judgements to choose one model or the other.
Our goal in this paper is to provide, for the first time, a more substantial basis for this choice, based on our qualitative and quantitative experience of implementing both models in a state-of-the-art compiler for Haskell.
Our conclusion is simple, and contradicts our initial intuition: compiled implementations should use eval/apply.
Well worth your time even if you are not going to implement a functional language any time soon.
Posted to implementation by Ehud Lamm on 4/27/03; 7:21:01 AM
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How to make a fast curry: push/enter vs eval/apply
