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From: gupta@surya.cs.unc.edu (Gopal Gupta)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Variable Usage Patterns in Prolog Programs
Keywords: prolog implementation, global & local stacks
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Date: 21 Feb 89 22:53:32 GMT
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Has anyone collected statistics on Prolog programs regarding 
the proportion between trailed-variables (conditional variables) 
residing in global stack and those residing in local stack of the
WAM. That is, I want to know the general proportion between 
conditional-global and conditional-local variables for "average"
Prolog programs. Does anyone know of any paper(s) where such statistics 
may be found.

Thanks.

--Gopal Gupta			
  Dept. of Computer Science,		gupta@unc.cs.unc.edu
  University of North Carolina,
  Chapel Hill, NC 27514.