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On the Complexity of the Standard Translation of Lambda Calculus into Combinatory Logic
On the Complexity of the Standard Translation of Lambda Calculus into Combinatory Logic

Author(s): Łukasz Lachowski
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: combinatory logic; lambda calculus; complexity analysis; functional programming

Summary/Abstract: We investigate the complexity of the standard translation of lambda calculus into combinatory logic. The main result shows that the asymptotic growth rate of the size of a translated term is Ø(n3) in worst-case, where n denotes the size of the lambda term.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 53
  • Page Range: 19-42
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: English