The designed UML diagrams of DroLIGHT described the application's functionalities, user access, internal work flow, system sequence, pre-processed source code structure, compilation, execution and integration with involved other components.
A fully featured Forth system with all source code will compile itself, a technique commonly called meta-compilation by Forth programmers (although the term doesn't exactly match meta-compilation as it is normally defined).
Additionally, FOP seems to be more effective tackling modularity degeneration, by avoiding feature tangling and scattering in source code, than conditional compilation and design patterns.
All modules include source code; clear instructions for compilation of binaries on a variety of target architectures; and test cases with well-documented input and output.
In first run of compilation, source code is selected block by block and following Green Strategies are applied on selected code: Is the process to conserve energy during loop execution.
The source code, Makefile for Linux compilation, test set and documentation can be downloaded (http://software.compbio.washington.edu/fast_protein_cluster).edu/fast_protein_cluster
Availability: C++ source code and documentation including compilation instructions are available under GNU licence at http://bgx.org.uk/software/ESS.html.uk/software/ESS.html
This contains (a) the Web service invocation, (b) transfer of source code to the MATLAB compiler Web service, (c) compilation of the source code, and (e) transfer of the compiled code back to the CEC.
However, some source code cannot be reshaped during compilation and is supposed to be handled by software developers.
This non-separation of the structure of the language brings a second inconvenience: in order to validate different profiles of the language, it is needed to change the source code and make a new compilation of the tool.
