by Bernd Braßel, Michael Hanus, Frank Huch, Josep Silva, Germán Vidal
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Logic-based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR'04), Springer LNCS 3573, pp. 182-197, 2005
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In this work, we introduce a profiling scheme for modern functional logic languages covering notions like laziness, sharing, and non-determinism. Firstly, we instrument a natural (big-step) semantics in order to associate a symbolic cost to each basic operation (e.g., variable updates, function unfoldings, case evaluations). While this cost semantics provides a formal basis to analyze the cost of a computation, the implementation of a cost-augmented interpreter based on it would introduce a huge overhead. Therefore, we also introduce a sound transformation that instruments a program such that its execution - under the standard semantics - yields not only the corresponding results but also the associated costs. Finally, we describe a prototype implementation of a profiler based on the developments in this paper.
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