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Interpreter improvements #210

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@brendanzab brendanzab commented Jul 22, 2020

This uses glued evaluation to improve the terms returned from readback. This will allow us to create an explicitly typed core language without worrying about potential term-size blowups that can occur from excessive unfolding of definitions.

@brendanzab brendanzab force-pushed the glued-eval branch 4 times, most recently from dcc21ae to c7dd1e3 Compare July 22, 2020 23:03
@brendanzab brendanzab changed the title Implement unstuck values Interpreter improvements Jul 22, 2020
This uses glued evaluation to improve the terms returned from readback.

For more information you can have a look at the following links:

- [AndrasKovacs/smalltt](https://github.com/AndrasKovacs/smalltt/)
- [ollef/sixty](https://github.com/ollef/sixty/)
- [Non-deterministic normalization-by-evaluation](https://gist.github.com/AndrasKovacs/a0e0938113b193d6b9c1c0620d853784)
- [Example of the blowup that can occur when reading back values](https://twitter.com/brendanzab/status/1283278258818002944)
@brendanzab brendanzab merged commit 65b2331 into pikelet-lang:next Jul 22, 2020
@brendanzab brendanzab deleted the glued-eval branch July 22, 2020 23:53
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