Re: Prolog to WAM Register Allocation?

anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
17 Jan 2006 21:38:42 -0500

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From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 17 Jan 2006 21:38:42 -0500
Organization: Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
References: 06-01-040
Keywords: prolog
Posted-Date: 17 Jan 2006 21:38:42 EST

"Ludwig Wittgenstein" <sender_001@hotmail.com> writes:
> I'm currently studying how Prolog compiles its source into Warren
>Abstract Machine code and I was wondering what kind of algorithm does
>Prolog use to assign variables and constants to X and Y registers?


Depends on the Prolog implementation. One thing that I remember is
that it is a good idea to arrange the "registers" that actually reside
on the stack (IIRC the Y registers) by lifetime, with the ones dying
last having the smallest number; on calls the stack depth is reduced
to keep only those "registers" that survive the call; this reduces the
stack requirements on recursion (I guess similar things are done in
functional languages).


- anton
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