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Re: Bug fix Andre van Tonder (12 Jun 2004 01:50 UTC)
Re: Bug fix Matthias Radestock (12 Jun 2004 07:21 UTC)
Re: Bug fix Andre van Tonder (12 Jun 2004 15:07 UTC)

Re: Bug fix Andre van Tonder 12 Jun 2004 01:50 UTC

Thank you to Alexandro and John for pointing out the bugs in the
implementation.  I have fixed them and included the suggested extra
tests in the update below.

Best regards
Andre

;=====================================================================
; Boxes

(define (box x) (list x))
(define unbox car)
(define set-box! set-car!)

;==========================================================
; Primitives for lazy evaluation:

(define-syntax lazy
    (syntax-rules ()
      ((lazy exp)
       (box (box (cons 'lazy (lambda () exp)))))))

(define (eager x)
    (box (box (cons 'eager x))))

(define-syntax delay
    (syntax-rules ()
      ((delay exp) (lazy (eager exp)))))

(define (force promise)
    (let ((content (unbox (unbox promise))))
      (case (car content)
        ((eager) (cdr content))
        ((lazy)  (let* ((promise* ((cdr content)))
                        (content  (unbox (unbox promise))))
                   (when (not (eqv? (car content) 'eager))    ; for reentrancy test 3
                     (set-box! (unbox promise) (unbox (unbox promise*)))
                     (set-box! promise* (unbox promise)))
                   (force promise))))))

;============================================================
; BENCHMARKS:
;============================================================

;============================================================
; Memoization test 1:

(define s (delay (begin (display 'hello) 1)))

(force s)
(force s)
                 ;===> Should display 'hello once

;============================================================
; Memoization test 2:

(let ((s (delay (begin (display 'bonjour) 2))))
    (+ (force s) (force s)))

                 ;===> Should display 'bonjour once

;============================================================
; Memoization test 3: (pointed out by Alejandro Forero Cuervo)

(define s (delay (begin (display 'hi) 1)))
(define t (lazy s))

(force t)
(force s)
                 ;===> Should display 'hi once

;============================================================
; Memoization test 4: Stream memoization

(define (stream-drop s index)
    (lazy
     (if (zero? index)
         s
         (stream-drop (cdr (force s)) (- index 1)))))

(define (from n)
    (delay (begin
             (display 'ho)
             (cons n (from (+ n 1))))))
(define s (from 0))

(car (force (stream-drop s 4)))
(car (force (stream-drop s 4)))

                 ;===> Should display 'ho five times

;=============================================================
; Reentrancy test 1: from R5RS

(define count 0)
(define p
    (delay (begin (set! count (+ count 1))
                  (if (> count x)
                      count
                      (force p)))))
(define x 5)
(force p)                     ;===>  6
(set! x 10)
(force p)                     ;===>  6

;===========================================================
; Reentrancy test 2: from SRFI 40

(define f
    (let ((first? #t))
      (delay
        (if first?
            (begin
              (set! first? #f)
              (force f))
            'second))))

(force f)                     ;===> 'second

;===========================================================
; Reentrancy test 3: due to John Shutt

(define q
    (let ((count 5))
      (define (get-count) count)
      (define p (delay (if (<= count 0)
                           count
                           (begin (set! count (- count 1))
                                  (force p)
                                  (set! count (+ count 2))
                                  count))))
      (list get-count p)))
(define get-count (car q))
(define p (cadr q))

(get-count)  ; =>   5
(force p)    ; =>   0
(get-count)  ; =>   10

;=============================================================
; Test leaks:  All the leak tests should run in bounded space.

;============================================================
; Leak test 1: Infinite loop in bounded space.

(define (loop) (lazy (loop)))
;(force (loop))

;============================================================
; Leak test 2: Pending memos should not accumulate
;              in shared structures.

(define s (loop))
;(force s)

;============================================================
; Leak test 3: Safely traversing infinite stream.

(define (from n)
    (delay (cons n (from (+ n 1)))))

(define (traverse s)
    (lazy (traverse (cdr (force s)))))
;(force (traverse (from 0)))

;============================================================
; Leak test 4: Safely traversing infinite stream
;              while pointer to head of result exists.

(define s (traverse (from 0)))
;(force s)

;=========================================================================
; Convenient list deconstructor.

(define-syntax match
    (syntax-rules ()
      ((match exp
         (()      exp1)
         ((h . t) exp2))
       (let ((lst exp))
         (cond ((null? lst) exp1)
               ((pair? lst) (let ((h (car lst))
                                  (t (cdr lst)))
                              exp2))
               (else 'match-error))))))

;==============================================================
(define (stream-filter p? s)
    (lazy (match (force s)
            (()      (delay '()))
            ((h . t) (if (p? h)
                         (delay (cons h (stream-filter p? t)))
                         (stream-filter p? t))))))

;============================================================
; Leak test 5: Naive stream-filter should run in bounded space.
;              Simplest case.

;(force (stream-filter (lambda (n) (= n 10000000000))
;                      (from 0)))

; The stream-ref procedure below does not strictly need to be lazy.
; It is defined lazy for the purpose of testing safe compostion of lazy procedures in
; the times3 benchmark below (previous candidate solutions had failed this).

(define (stream-ref s index)
    (lazy
     (match (force s)
       (()      'error)
       ((h . t) (if (zero? index)
                    (delay h)
                    (stream-ref t (- index 1)))))))

; Check that evenness is correctly implemented - should terminate:

(force (stream-ref (stream-filter zero? (from 0))
                     0))

;============================================================
; Leak test 6: Another long traversal should run in bounded space.

(define s (stream-ref (from 0) 100000000))
;(force s)

(define (times3 n)
    (stream-ref (stream-filter
                 (lambda (x) (zero? (modulo x n)))
                 (from 0))
                3))

;============================================================
; Leak test 7: Infamous example from SRFI 40.

(force (times3 7))
;(force (times3 100000000))