Jeremy Yallop
ABSTRACT
Generic programming libraries such as Scrap Your Boilerplate eliminate the need to write repetitive code, but typically introduce significant performance overheads. This leaves programmers with the unfortunate choice of writing succinct but slow programs or writing tedious but efficient programs. We show how to systematically transform an implementation of the Scrap Your Boilerplate library in the multi-stage programming language MetaOCaml to eliminate the overhead, making it possible to combine the benefits of high-level abstract programming with the efficiency of low-level code.
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- A. Installation Instructions The staged SYB library is written using a fork of the OCaml distribution that combines the ongoing work on BER MetaOCaml (Kiselyov 2014) and modular implicits (White et al. 2015) in a single compiler. OPAM users can install the compiler by running the following command: opam switch 4.02.1+modular-implicits-ber The staged SYB library implementation may be installed by running the following command: opam pin add metaocaml-syb \ https://github.com/yallop/metaocaml-syb The code is available to browse and download at the same URL.Google Scholar
Index Terms
- Staging generic programming
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