Abstract
Erlang's bit syntax caters for flexible pattern matching on bit streams (objects known as binaries). Binaries are nowadays heavily used in typical Erlang applications such as protocol programming, which in turn has created a need for efficient support of the basic operations on binaries.

To this effect, we describe a scheme for efficient native code compilation of Erlang's bit syntax. The scheme relies on partial translation for avoiding code explosion, and improves the performance of programs manipulating binaries by translating frequently occurring instances of BEAM instructions into native code via an intermediate translation to instructions of a register transfer language. Our performance evaluation shows that in a HiPE-enabled Erlang/OTP system, the obtained speedups are often significant.

Supervisor and Examiner: Kostis Sagonas.

ASTEC seminar
October 2, 2002

Place: Information technology, Uppsala University
Room: 1113
Time: 13.15-14.00 (+ discussions)

Room 1113 is in building 1, floor 1, room 13 (in the southern part of the building).

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There will be an extended period for discussions after the seminar.

Speakers are encouraged to give an short (5 min) introduction to the subject at the begining of the talk.
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