Efficient Gradual Typing
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Gradual typing combines static and dynamic typing in the same program. One would hope that the performance in a gradually typed language would range between that of a dynamically typed language and a statically typed language. Existing implementations of gradually typed languages have not achieved this goal due to overheads associated with runtime casts. Takikawa et al. (2016) report up to 100× slowdowns for partially typed programs. In this paper we present a compiler, named Grift, for evaluating implementation techniques for gradual typing. We take a straightforward but surprisingly unexplored implementation approach for gradual typing, that is, ahead-of-time compilation to native assembly code with carefully chosen runtime representations and space-efficient coercions. Our experiments show that this approach achieves performance on par with OCaml on statically typed programs and performance between that of Gambit and Racket on untyped programs. On partially typed code, the geometric mean ranges from 0.42× to 2.36× that of (untyped) Racket across the benchmarks. We implement casts using the coercions of Siek, Thiemann, and Wadler (2015). This technique eliminates all catastrophic slowdowns without introducing significant overhead. Across the benchmarks, coercions range from 15% slower (fft) to almost 2× faster (matmult) than regular casts. We also implement the monotonic references of Siek et al. (2015). Monotonic references eliminate all overhead in statically typed code, and for partially typed code, they are faster than proxied references, sometimes up to 1.48×.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1802.06375 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2018