Improving parallel implementations of lazy functional languages using evaluation transformers
Horn, Matthias · Refubium (Universitätsbibliothek der Freien Universität Berlin) · 1995
This report outlines a parallel abstract machine for the implementation of a lazy functional core language. The evaluation transformer model of reduction [1] is used to control the evaluation process. An evaluator space containing parameterised evaluators for structured and polymorphic types is introduced. Using this framework it is possible to handle runtime information about evaluators for arbitrary structured types as well as evaluation transformers for functions over polymorphic types.