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The paper describes some interesting features of MProlog, a structure sharing Prolog implementation developed in Hungary in early eighties. Following a brief overview of system structure, we describe some special language elements of MProlog, with the emphasis placed on implementation aspects. Several extensions to Warren’s structure sharing compilation model, employed in the MProlog compiler, are also discussed. Finally, a brief description of the implementation technology of MProlog is given.
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Farkas, Z., Köves, P., Szeredi, P. (1994). MProlog: an Implementation Overview. In: Tick, E., Succi, G. (eds) Implementations of Logic Programming Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2690-2_8
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