Updated by FastRunner on Tuesday, August 15th 2000.
A program specializer or, as it is also called, a "partial evaluator" takes the source code for a program or a routine and(commonly) some of its input, and tries to produce faster but equivalent code, utilizing the fact that some of the variables will have known values so that some of the program's actions can beprecomputed. This allows one to combine the maintainability of ageneric parameterized source code with the speed of programsoptimized for specific problem instances.
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