{"title":"Staging for generic programming in space and time","authors":"Georg Ofenbeck, Tiark Rompf, Markus Püschel","doi":"10.1145/3136040.3136060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3136040.3136060","url":null,"abstract":"Metaprogramming is among the most promising candidates to solve the abstraction vs performance trade-off that plagues software engineering through specialization. Metaprogramming has been used to enable low-overhead generic programming for a long time, with C++ templates being one of the most prominent examples. But often a single, fixed pattern of specialization is not enough, and more flexibility is needed. Hence, this paper seeks to apply generic programming techniques to challenges in metaprogramming, in particular to abstract over the execution stage of individual program expressions. We thus extend the scope of generic programming into the dimension of time. The resulting notion of stage polymorphism enables novel abstractions in the design of program generators, which we develop and explore in this paper. We present one possible implementation, in Scala using the lightweight modular staging (LMS) framework, and apply it to two important case studies: convolution on images and the fast Fourier transform (FFT).","PeriodicalId":398999,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts and Experiences","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129127613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Code staging in GNU Guix","authors":"Ludovic Courtès","doi":"10.1145/3136040.3136045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3136040.3136045","url":null,"abstract":"GNU Guix is a \"functional\" package manager that borrows from earlier work on Nix by Dolstra et al.. Guix implements high-level abstractions such as packages and operating system services as domain-specific languages (DSL) embedded in Scheme, and it also implements build actions and operating system orchestration in Scheme. This leads to a multi-tier programming environment where embedded code snippets are staged for eventual execution. In this paper we present G-expressions or \"gexps\". We explain our journey from traditional Lisp S-expressions to G-expressions, which augment the former with contextual information, and we discuss the implementation of gexps. We report on our experience using gexps in a variety of operating system use cases-from package build processes to system services. Gexps provide a novel way to cover many aspects of OS configuration in a single, multi-tier language while facilitating code reuse and code sharing.","PeriodicalId":398999,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts and Experiences","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128343808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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