Destination-passing style for efficient memory management
Amir Shaikhha, Andrew W Fitzgibbon, Simon Peyton Jones, Dimitrios Vytiniotis · 2017
We show how to compile high-level functional array-processing programs, drawn from image processing and machine learning, into C code that runs as fast as hand-written C. The key idea is to transform the program to destination-passing style, which in turn enables a highly-efficient stack-like memory allocation discipline.