X-Git-Url: https://git.stderr.nl/gitweb?p=matthijs%2Fmaster-project%2Freport.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=Chapters%2FNormalization.tex;h=3d53853a58129f8b8cf90e5a22b8da3f02f75d30;hp=714ce88c0c6a663b2c7cf517db11f0243718ed87;hb=901c9881c60ac1897aa8efb63d082798272e1ae7;hpb=469c28edabf61f131bd29bb76838b615a84acc9a diff --git a/Chapters/Normalization.tex b/Chapters/Normalization.tex index 714ce88..3d53853 100644 --- a/Chapters/Normalization.tex +++ b/Chapters/Normalization.tex @@ -28,11 +28,7 @@ core can describe expressions that do not have a direct hardware interpretation. - \todo{Describe core properties not supported in \VHDL, and describe how the - \VHDL we want to generate should look like.} - \section{Normal form} - \todo{Refresh or refer to distinct hardware per application principle} The transformations described here have a well-defined goal: To bring the program in a well-defined form that is directly translatable to hardware, while fully preserving the semantics of the program. We refer to this form as @@ -629,9 +625,11 @@ In particular, we define no particular order of transformations. Since transformation order should not influence the resulting normal form, - \todo{This is not really true, but would like it to be...} this leaves - the implementation free to choose any application order that results in - an efficient implementation. + this leaves the implementation free to choose any application order that + results in an efficient implementation. Unfortunately this is not + entirely true for the current set of transformations. See + \in{section}[sec:normalization:non-determinism] for a discussion of this + problem. When applying a single transformation, we try to apply it to every (sub)expression in a function, not just the top level function body. This allows us to @@ -641,8 +639,6 @@ In the following sections, we will be using a number of functions and notations, which we will define here. - \todo{Define substitution (notation)} - \subsubsection{Concepts} A \emph{global variable} is any variable (binder) that is bound at the top level of a program, or an external module. A \emph{local variable} is any @@ -799,8 +795,34 @@ optimizations, but they are required to get our program into intended normal form. + \placeintermezzo{}{ + \defref{substitution notation} + \startframedtext[width=8cm,background=box,frame=no] + \startalignment[center] + {\tfa Substitution notation} + \stopalignment + \blank[medium] + + In some of the transformations in this chapter, we need to perform + substitution on an expression. Substitution means replacing every + occurence of some expression (usually a variable reference) with + another expression. + + There have been a lot of different notations used in literature for + specifying substitution. The notation that will be used in this report + is the following: + + \startlambda + E[A=>B] + \stoplambda + + This means expression \lam{E} with all occurences of \lam{A} replaced + with \lam{B}. + \stopframedtext + } + + \defref{beta-reduction} \subsubsection[sec:normalization:beta]{β-reduction} - \defref{beta-reduction} β-reduction is a well known transformation from lambda calculus, where it is the main reduction step. It reduces applications of lambda abstractions, removing both the lambda abstraction and the application. @@ -867,7 +889,8 @@ This transformation is not needed to get an expression into intended normal form (since these bindings are part of the intended normal form), but makes the resulting \small{VHDL} a lot shorter. - + + \refdef{substitution notation} \starttrans letrec a0 = E0 @@ -1084,7 +1107,7 @@ \transexample{apppropcase}{Application propagation for a case expression}{from}{to} - \subsubsection{Let recursification} + \subsubsection[sec:normalization:letrecurse]{Let recursification} This transformation makes all non-recursive lets recursive. In the end, we want a single recursive let in our normalized program, so all non-recursive lets can be converted. This also makes other @@ -1799,6 +1822,7 @@ solves (part of) the polymorphism, higher order values and unrepresentable literals in an expression. + \refdef{substitution notation} \starttrans letrec a0 = E0 @@ -1990,7 +2014,7 @@ let y = (a * b) in y + y \stoplambda - \subsection{Non-determinism} + \subsection[sec:normalization:non-determinism]{Non-determinism} As an example, again consider the following expression: \startlambda