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ENTCS
2002
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13 years 5 months ago
Debugging and Testing Optimizers through Comparison Checking
We present a novel technique called comparison checking that helps optimizer writers debug optimizers by testing, for given inputs, that the semantics of a program are not changed...
Clara Jaramillo, Rajiv Gupta, Mary Lou Soffa
JELIA
2000
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Logic for Modeling Decision Making with Dynamic Preferences
We present a framework for decision making with the possibility to express circumstance-dependent preferences among different alternatives for a decision. This new formalism, Order...
Marina De Vos, Dirk Vermeir
ESOP
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Tail-Recursive Semantics for Stack Inspections
Security folklore holds that a security mechanism based on stack inspection is incompatible with a global tail call optimization policy. An implementation of such a language may ha...
John Clements, Matthias Felleisen
ENTCS
2007
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13 years 5 months ago
Optimisation Validation
We introduce the idea of optimisation validation, which is to formally establish that an instance of an optimising transformation indeed improves with respect to some resource mea...
David Aspinall, Lennart Beringer, Alberto Momiglia...
POPL
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Pick your contexts well: understanding object-sensitivity
ensitivity has emerged as an excellent context abstraction for points-to analysis in object-oriented languages. Despite its practical success, however, object-sensitivity is poorl...
Yannis Smaragdakis, Martin Bravenboer, Ondrej Lhot...