Rescheduled: DynLangSem, Fri. *** Aug. 17 ***, 2-3pm, 8ai, Eric Kidd


Subject: Rescheduled: DynLangSem, Fri. *** Aug. 17 ***, 2-3pm, 8ai, Eric Kidd
From: Gregory T. Sullivan (gregs@ai.mit.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 30 2001 - 15:16:26 EDT


[Apologies for a second message -- meeting has been rescheduled
 because of conflicts.]

  *** Rescheduled to Aug. 17 *** Rescheduled to Aug. 17 ***

            Dynamic Languages Seminar
    http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/dynlangs/

Who: Eric Kidd
When: Friday, Aug. 17, 2001, 2-3pm. Refreshments from 1:45pm to 2.
What: Efficient Compression of Generic Function Dispatch Tables
Abstract:
  A generic function is similar to an overloaded operator, but
  provides a way to select an appropriate behavior at run-time instead
  of compile-time. Dujardin and colleagues have proposed an algorithm
  for building and compressing generic function dispatch tables.

  I present several modifications to their algorithm, including an
  improvement to Pseudo-Closest-Poles and two new algorithms for
  compressing pole tables. The two new compression algorithms are
  simple and fast, and one produces smaller output than the original.

Location: 8th floor play room of MIT building NE43, aka 545
          Technology Square, aka 200 Technology Square.

Directions: http://www.ai.mit.edu/visiting/directions.shtml

Hope to see you there!

-- 
Greg      gregs@ai.mit.edu (617)253-5807
Sullivan  http://www.ai.mit.edu/~gregs/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b28 : Mon Jul 30 2001 - 16:21:00 EDT