Stalin (Scheme implementation)
- Stalin (Scheme implementation)
Infobox Software
name = Stalin
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developer = Jeffrey Mark Siskind
latest_release_version = 0.11
latest_release_date = Oct 2, 2006
operating_system = Cross-platform
genre = Programming language
license = GPL
website = [http://cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~qobi/software.html cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~qobi/software.html]
Stalin is an aggressive optimizing batch whole-program Scheme compiler written by Jeffrey Mark Siskind. It uses advanced flow analysis and type inference and a variety of other optimization techniques to produce code (using C as an intermediate language) that is extremely fast, particularly for numerical code. In a number of tests it has outperformed hand-written C, sometimes by a considerable margin. Stalin is intended for production use in generating an optimized executable.
The compiler itself runs slowly, and there is little or no support for debugging or other niceties. Full RnRS Scheme is not supported, but rather a coherent subset amenable to optimization. The compiler itself does lifetime analysis and hence does not generate as much garbage as might be expected, but global reclamation of storage is done using the Boehm garbage collector.
Stalin is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), and is available online.
External links
* [http://cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~qobi/software.html Stalin home page]
* [ftp://ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/qobi/research-statement.pdf Research Statement by Siskind] (compares Stalin with other Scheme compilers, and states that "STALIN often generates code that outperforms handwritten C and Fortran code.")
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