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Generating specialized interpreters for modular structural operational semantics

Casper Bach Poulsen, Peter Mosses Orcid Logo

Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation, Volume: LNCS 8901, Pages: 220 - 236

Swansea University Author: Peter Mosses Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1007/978-3-319-14125-1_13

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Modular Structural Operational Semantics (MSOS) is a variant of Structural Operational Semantics (SOS). It allows language constructs to be specified independently, such that no reformulation of existing rules in an MSOS specification is required when a language is extended with new constructs and f...

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description Modular Structural Operational Semantics (MSOS) is a variant of Structural Operational Semantics (SOS). It allows language constructs to be specified independently, such that no reformulation of existing rules in an MSOS specification is required when a language is extended with new constructs and features.Introducing the Prolog MSOS Tool, we recall how to synthesize executable interpreters from small-step MSOS specifications by compiling MSOS rules into Prolog clauses. Implementing the transitive closure of compiled small-step rules gives an executable interpreter in Prolog. In the worst case, such interpreters traverse each intermediate program term in its full depth, resulting in a significant overhead in each step.We show how to transform small-step MSOS specifications into corresponding big-step specifications via a two-step specialization by internalizing the rules implementing the transitive closure in MSOS and ‘refocusing’ the small-step rules. Specialized specifications result in generated interpreters with significantly reduced interpretive overhead.
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