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This speedup is obtained by instead of generating 211 shell commands to compile the RGL one file at a time, generate 7 shell commands, passing a number of related files to GF in one go. In addition to cutting down the zero build time, this opens up for speeding up full builds of the RGL, by adding more parallelism in GF's grammar compilation machinery. (Note: gf.cabal already takes advantage of GHC's parallel build option to speed up the compilation of GF itself, if GHC>=7.8 is used.)
DESCRIPTION
The Grammatical Framework (=GF) is a grammar formalism based on type theory.
It consists of
* a special-purpose programming language
* a compiler of the language
* a generic grammar processor
The compiler reads GF grammars from user-provided files, and the
generic grammar processor performs various tasks with the grammars:
* generation
* parsing
* translation
* type checking
* computation
* paraphrasing
* random generation
* syntax editing
GF particularly addresses four aspects of grammars:
* multilinguality (parallel grammars for different languages)
* semantics (semantic conditions of well-formedness, semantic
properties of expressions)
* grammar engineering (modularity, abstractions, libraries)
* embeddability in programs written in other languages (C,C++,
Haskell, Java, JavaScript)
COMPILATION and INSTALLATION of source distribution:
See download/index.html for installation instructions.
(More details can be found in doc/gf-developers.html.)