[firedrake] Lightweight Modular Staging

[Kelly, Paul H J]

I mentioned Lightweight Modular Staging in the meeting yesterday.  The context was thinking about tools to clean up our template-based code generation and allow direct construction of COFFEE or LLVM IR.

LMS is done in the context of Scala so it's not directly usable - but the ideas might be helpful.  Here is the website:

http://scala-lms.github.io/

LMS is being used in a number of interesting DSL projects at Stanford, via a framework for domain-specific optimisations called Delite:
  http://ppl.stanford.edu/main/projects.html

A related and somewhat similar idea has been done in Lua, as described here:
  http://terralang.org/pldi071-devito.pdf
You can play online here
  http://terralang.org/demo.html

Does anyone know of a similar tool in Python?

As a historical note, I claim our Taskgraph Library work got there first, in C++:
  http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~phjk/Software/TGL/

Paul


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