Accelerating APL programs with SAC

Proceedings of the Conference on APL 1999: On Track to the 21st Century, APL 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 50-57

  Grelck, Clemens ^a   Scholz, Sven Bodo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Compilation; Language comparison; Runtime performance; SAC

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARK PROGRAMS; COMPILATION; LANGUAGE COMPARISON; PURELY FUNCTIONAL; REAL-WORLD; RUN-TIME PERFORMANCE; RUNTIMES;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

EID: 84888865750     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/312627.312719     Document Type: Conference Paper

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