Abstract
Fusion is a program transformation that combines adjacent computations, flattening structure and improving efficiency at the cost of clarity. Fission is the same transformation, in reverse: creating structure, ex nihilo. We explore the use of fission for program comprehension, that is, for reconstructing the design of a program from its implementation. We illustrate through rational reconstructions of the designs for three different C programs that count the words in a text file. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.
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Gibbons, J. (2006). Fission for program comprehension. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 4014 LNCS, pp. 162–179). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/11783596_12
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