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BinProlog is an efficient, compact and portable Prolog system, based on a source-level transformation to continuation passing binary clauses, a completely side-effect free compiler written in Prolog and a simplified WAM, optimized for execution of binary logic programs. We give a short description of the compiler and the engine, some performance data, and we point out some of the reasons why BinProlog compares so well with systems based on the full WAM in terms of absolute performance.
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Tarau, P. (1992). BinProlog: A continuation passing style Prolog engine. In: Bruynooghe, M., Wirsing, M. (eds) Programming Language Implementation and Logic Programming. PLILP 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 631. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55844-6_158
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