This is the last of three lectures on integrating domain-specific languages with general-purpose programming languages. This lecture looked at metaprogramming, where one program manipulates another; in particular the possibilities for heterogeneous metaprogramming provided by the LINQ framework mentioned in the previous lecture. This leads to an example from the following paper where existing F# code for running Conway’s Game of Life can be automatically transformed to run on a GPU.
D. Syme Leveraging .NET meta-programming components from F#: Integrated queries and interoperable heterogeneous execution. In ML ’06: Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2006 Workshop on ML, pages 43–54. ACM Press, September 2006. DOI 10.1145/1159876.1159884
Link: Slides
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