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Natural Semantics has become a popular tool among programming language researchers for specifying many aspects of programming languages. However, due to the lack of practical tools for implementation, the natural semantics formalism has so far largely been limited to theoretical applications.
This book introduces the rational meta-language RML as a practical language for natural semantics specifications. The main part of the work is devoted to the problem of compiling natural semantics, actually RML, into highly efficient code. For this purpose, an effective compilation strategy for RML is developed and implemented in the rml2c compiler. This compiler ultimately produces low-level C code. Benchmarking results show that rml2c-produced code is much faster than code resulting from compilers based on alternative implementation approaches.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ 3540659684
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Springer
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 5, 1999
Edition ‏ : ‎ 1999th
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9783540659686
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3540659686
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.1 x 0.6 x 9.25 inches