gf-core/doc/hackers-guide

The Hacker's Guide to GF

This is the hacker's guide to GF, for the guide to the galaxy, see the full edition here. Here we will limit outselves to the vastly narrower domain of the GF runtime. This means that we will not meet any Vogons, but we will touch upon topics like memory management, databases, transactions, compilers, functional programming, theorem proving and sometimes even languages. Subjects that no doubt would interest any curious hacker.

So, Don't Panic! and keep reading. This is a live document and will develop together with the runtime itself.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Compilation
   1. Overview
   2. Lambda Calculus
   3. Parallel Multiple Context-Free Grammars
2. Runtime
   1. Desiderata
   2. Memory Model
   3. Abstract Expressions
   4. Transactions