...is a paper about automatic specialisation of functions by unboxing arguments, one could say. I'm only on page 6, but already survived the first formalisms, which is bound to mean that the rest of the paper is likewise accessible, as hinted on at ltu. http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/wrapper.pdf The transformation itself is mindbogglingly easy, which makes this a good start: You only have to understand the formalisms, not so much what the formalisms are representing. To quote spj: It usually turns out to be more interesting and challenging than it seemed at first. I'm tempted to write that this is a paper for everyone trying to figure out what the heck Jonathan is talking about. -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for past copyright information. All rights reserved. Unauthorised copying, hiring, renting, public performance and/or broadcasting of this signature prohibited.