Partial evaluation of numerical programs in Fortran (1994)
| Venue: | ACM SIGPLAN WORKSHOP ON PARTIAL EVALUATION AND SEMANTICS-BASED PROGRAM MANIPULATION (ORLANDO, FLORIDA) |
| Citations: | 31 - 1 self |
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@MISC{Baier94partialevaluation,
author = {Romana Baier and Robert Glück and Robert Zöchling},
title = {Partial evaluation of numerical programs in Fortran},
year = {1994}
}
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Abstract
We investigate the application of partial evaluation to numerically oriented computation in scientific and engineering applications. We present our results using the Fast Fourier Transformation, the N-body attraction problem, and the cubic splines interpolation as examples. All programs are written in Fortran 77, specialized using our Fortran partial evaluator, and compiled into executable machine code using a commercial Fortran compiler. The results demonstrate that existing partial evaluation technology is strong enough to improve the efficiency of a large class of numerical programs. However, using partial evaluation as a development tool in the ‘real world’ still remains a challenging problem.
