System Architecture
The system includes an incremental compiler which translates source code into virtual machine code. The compiler optimizes index selection, unification order, inlining of control constructs and can take mode information into account.
The runtime system implements the virtual machine, automatic memory management with garbage collection of stacks and dictionary, event handling and data-driven execution. Some versions of ECLiPSe implement OR-parallelism.
ECLiPSe components can be integrated into other software via a low-level C or C++ interface, or via high-level interfaces to Java and Tcl.
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