Storage management in APL machines

  • Authors:
  • Denis Samson;Yves Reynaud

  • Affiliations:
  • France;Université Paul-Sabatier, Toulouse, France

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad
  • Year:
  • 1979

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Abstract

This paper presents possible organizations for that part of an APL machine concerned with management of storage for all entities forming an APL workspace. Symbol-table organization is examined, and a scheme for representation of data is proposed that separates values from their description and permits sharing of both by any number of variables. Examples are given of how this allows the APL processor efficient use of storage and how a general framework is provided for efficient implementation of "non-naive" execution of statements containing selection functions.