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From: Hugo Ferreira <hmf@inescporto.pt>
To: Peter Ilberg <peter.ilberg@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Optimizing symbolic processing code
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:19:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4970B398.5010100@inescporto.pt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.unux2nl9d9atr4@tomato.amer.corp.natinst.com>

Peter Ilberg wrote:
> On Friday 16 January 2009 08:42:52 Hugo Ferreira wrote:
> 
>> I have implemented a simple Prolog like inference engine
>> to be used in machine learning algorithms (ILP). My first
>> basic test shows that inference is dismally slow (compared
>> to a Prolog compiler).
> 
>> Consequently I am looking for information on optimizing the code.
> 
> For implementing a Prolog-like language, you might want to look at
> this book on the Warren Abstract Machine:
> 
> http://web.archive.org/web/20030213072337/http://www.vanx.org/archive/wam/wam.html 
> 

Ok, new of this document. But I think this demands too-much effort.

> 
> You might also want to look at 'KANREN' and specifically 'miniKANREN':
> 
> http://kanren.sourceforge.net/
> 
> miniKANREN is a simple declarative logic programming system embedded
> into Scheme. I don't know how efficient the system is, but it might
> give you further ideas on how to implement such a system.
> 

Did not know about this. I'll take a look.

Thanks,
Hugo F.


> --- Peter
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-16 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-16  8:42 Hugo Ferreira
2009-01-16  9:05 ` [Caml-list] " blue storm
2009-01-16  9:44   ` Hugo Ferreira
2009-01-16 13:41 ` Jon Harrop
2009-01-16 14:15   ` Hugo Ferreira
2009-01-16 16:14     ` Peter Ilberg
2009-01-16 16:19       ` Hugo Ferreira [this message]
2009-01-16 19:09         ` Andrej Bauer
2009-01-16 20:48           ` Andrej Bauer
2009-01-17  9:28             ` Hugo Ferreira
2009-01-17 11:39               ` Andrej Bauer
2009-01-17 15:47                 ` Hugo Ferreira
2009-01-17 16:08                   ` Hugo Ferreira
2009-01-16 21:46         ` Kuba Ober
2009-01-17  9:46           ` Hugo Ferreira

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