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PLDI
2003
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Automatically proving the correctness of compiler optimizations
We describe a technique for automatically proving compiler optimizations sound, meaning that their transformations are always semantics-preserving. We first present a domainspeci...
Sorin Lerner, Todd D. Millstein, Craig Chambers
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Programming asynchronous layers with CLARITY
Asynchronous systems components are hard to write, hard to reason about, and (not coincidentally) hard to mechanically verify. In order to achieve high performance, asynchronous c...
Prakash Chandrasekaran, Christopher L. Conway, Jos...
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Symbolic mining of temporal specifications
Program specifications are important in many phases of the software development process, but they are often omitted or incomplete. An important class of specifications takes the f...
Mark Gabel, Zhendong Su
POPL
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
The semantics of progress in lock-based transactional memory
Transactional memory (TM) is a promising paradigm for concurrent programming. Whereas the number of TM implementations is growing, however, little research has been conducted to p...
Rachid Guerraoui, Michal Kapalka
ECOOP
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Failboxes: Provably Safe Exception Handling
The primary goal of exception mechanisms is to help ensure that when an operation fails, code that depends on the operation's successful completion is not executed (a property...
Bart Jacobs 0002, Frank Piessens