Compiling Python to a hybrid execution environment

International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems - ASPLOS

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 19-30

  Garg, Rahul ^a   Amaral, José Nelson ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDRESS SPACE; C PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; EXECUTION ENVIRONMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; JUST IN TIME COMPILERS; MEMORY LOCATIONS; PROGRAMMING MODELS; SHARED ADDRESS SPACES;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES;

PROGRAM COMPILERS;

EID: 77952280338     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1735688.1735695     Document Type: Conference Paper

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