Numerically intensive calculations are not well supported by Prolog, yet there are important applications that require tightly coupled symbolic and numeric calculations. We identify some additional built-in predicates and macros for Prolog to support numeric calculations. These predicates are implemented in several layers of software and hardware, including a specially designed high performance numeric coprocessor. Simulated performance results indicate the system will achieve about 4 MFLOPS on the Prolog version of some Whetstone benchmarks (in double precision).
Title
High Performance Numerical Calculation in Prolog Execution
Published
1988-02-04
Full Collection Name
Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences Technical Reports
Other Identifiers
CSD-88-444
Type
Text
Extent
13 p
Archive
The Engineering Library
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