Self-applicable partial evaluation for the pi-calculus

  • Authors:
  • Marc Gengler;Matthieu Martel

  • Affiliations:
  • Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme (LIP), 46, Allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France;Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme (LIP), 46, Allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France

  • Venue:
  • PEPM '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Partial evaluation and semantics-based program manipulation
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

In this paper, we are interested in self-applicable partial evaluation for the pi-calculus, a language which models the concurrent behavior of communicating processes. We use the classic three-steps methodology. First, we write a meta-interpreter for the language. Second, we introduce an abstract analysis that determines which operations (communications) can be executed at compile-time. The notion of well-annotatedness of terms is defined. Finally, we exhibit the self-applicable partial evaluator which is applied to well-annotated terms, and we prove its correctness with respect to the interpreter. This approach is compatible with Futamura's projections. Proofs of correctness are baaed on the notion of weak reduction equivalence.