Compile-time Computation of Polytime Functions
Emanuele Covino, Giovanni Pani, Daniele Scrimieri · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2007
We investigate the computational power of C++ compilers. In particular, it is known that any partial recursive function can be computed at compile time, using the template mechanism to define primitive recursion, composition, and minimalization. We show that polynomial time computable functions can be computed at compile-time using the same mechanism, together with template specialization.