On Monday, 17 March 2014 at 16:57:46 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 3/16/14, 5:42 PM, Asman01 wrote:
I was reading Walter's article where he use this term and
explain what
is it. He did a clear explanation abount what what it does.
But where
come from actually this term? I can't find anything related
with a lot
of keyword combinations on google/bing. And isn't only me want
to know
about origin of this term
(http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20252876/wanted-good-definition-of-the-term-lowering-in-the-context-of-compilers)
I introduced the term "lowering" to our community as the word
was commonly used in the programming languages group at
University of Washington (led at the time by Craig Chambers and
Dan Grossman). It's commonly used in compiler backend circles,
see e.g. http://goo.gl/FEVypJ.
It generally means the process of translating a higher-level
language with many capabilities into a simpler, lower-level
language. The latter could be an intermediate language, machine
code, or even a reduced dialect of the higher-level language
(as is the case for the way it's often used in D).
Andrei
Thanks very much for the information.
