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Lightweight Modular Staging: A Pragmatic Approach to Runtime Code Generation and Compiled DSLs

By Tiark Rompf, Martin Odersky
Communications of the ACM, June 2012, Vol. 55 No. 6, Pages 121-130
10.1145/2184319.2184345
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Good software engineering practice demands generalization and abstraction, whereas high performance demands specialization and concretization. These goals are at odds, and compilers only rarely translate expressive high-level programs to modern hardware platforms. Generative programming is a promising alternative.

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