Seminaïve evaluation for a higher-order functional language
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© 2020 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). One of the workhorse techniques for implementing bottom-up Datalog engines is seminaïve evaluation. This optimization improves the performance of Datalog's most distinctive feature: recursively defined predicates. These are computed iteratively, and under a naïve evaluation strategy, each iteration recomputes all previous values. Seminaïve evaluation computes a safe approximation of the difference between iterations. This can asymptotically improve the performance of Datalog queries. Seminaïve evaluation is defined partly as a program transformation and partly as a modified iteration strategy, and takes advantage of the first-order nature of Datalog code. This paper extends the seminaïve transformation to higher-order programs written in the Datafun language, which extends Datalog with features like first-class relations, higher-order functions, and datatypes like sum types.
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2475-1421