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Compiling with Continuations
A review of the book Compiling with Continuations, Appel (1992).
All the nitty-gritty details of compiling to really good machine code are covered, including the interface to a runtime system and garbage collector. This book will be essential reading for compiler writers in both industry and academe, as well as for students and researchers in programming-language theory. Chapter 14 describes quite well what to do about the differences between the abstract machine and conventional hardware, but the rest of the book isn’t concerned with implementation details.
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