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We propose that many, and maybe even all, interesting organisations of information and behaviour might be built from a single primitive operation: n-way associative lookup.

The central thesis of the paper, that associative lookup is a universal building block for dynamic system semantics.

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An association-based model of dynamic behaviour

(2011) · Piumarta, Ian

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whether many (maybe even all) useful organisations of information and behaviour in a dynamic language might be constructed from a single primitive operation: n-way associative lookup
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A fast implementation of this primitive, possibly in hardware, could be the basis of efficient and compact implementations of a diverse range of programming language semantics and data structures.
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Claim that hardware-supported associative lookup would enable high-performance dynamic language runtimes.

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