A Model of Costs and Benefits of Meta-Level Computation
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چکیده
It is well known that meta-computation can be used to guide other computations (at the object-level), and thereby reduce the costs of these computations. However, the question arises to what extent the cost of meta-computation oosetts the gains made by object-level savings. In this paper we discuss a set of equations that model this trade-oo between object-savings and meta-costs. The model shows that there are a number of important limitations on the usefulness of meta-computation, and we investigate the parameters that determine these limitations.
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