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Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages

IFL 1998: Implementation of Functional Languages pp 103–119Cite as

Implementing Eden — or: Dreams Become Reality

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The parallel functional programming language Eden was specially designed to be implemented in a distributed setting. In a previous paper [3] we presented an operational specification of DREAM, the distributed abstract machine for Eden. In this paper we go a step further and present the imperative code generated for Eden expressions and how this code interacts with the distributed RunTime System (RTS) for Eden. This translation is done in two steps: first Eden is translated into PEARL (Parallel Eden Abstract Reduction Language), the parallel functional language of DREAM, and then PEARL expressions are translated into imperative code.

Work partially supported by German-Spanish Acci on Integrada HA1997-0107 and the Spanish projects CAM-06T/033/96 and CICYT-TIC97-0672.

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  1. Philipps-Universität Marburg, D-35032, Marburg, Germany

    Ulrike Klusik

  2. Universidad Computense de Madrid, E-28040, Madrid, Spain

    Yolanda Ortega & Ricardo Peña

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  2. Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK

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Klusik, U., Ortega, Y., Peña, R. (1999). Implementing Eden — or: Dreams Become Reality. In: Hammond, K., Davie, T., Clack, C. (eds) Implementation of Functional Languages. IFL 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1595. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48515-5_7

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