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OOPSLA
2015
Springer
9 years 11 months ago
Slimming languages by reducing sugar: a case for semantics-altering transformations
Splitting a language into a core language and a desugaring function makes it possible to produce tractable semantics for real-world languages. It does so by pushing much of the la...
Junsong Li, Justin Pombrio, Joe Gibbs Politz, Shri...
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OOPSLA
2015
Springer
9 years 11 months ago
Pyrlang: a high performance Erlang virtual machine based on RPython
In widely-used actor-based programming languages, such as Erlang, sequential execution performance is as important as scalability of concurrency. We are developing a virtual machi...
Ruochen Huang, Hidehiko Masuhara, Tomoyuki Aotani
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OOPSLA
2015
Springer
9 years 11 months ago
SATCheck: SAT-directed stateless model checking for SC and TSO
Writing low-level concurrent code is well known to be challenging and error prone. The widespread deployment of multi-core hardware and the shift towards using low-level concurren...
Brian Demsky, Patrick Lam
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OOPSLA
2015
Springer
9 years 11 months ago
A sound and optimal incremental build system with dynamic dependencies
Build systems are used in all but the smallest software projects to invoke the right build tools on the right files in the right order. A build system must be sound (after a buil...
Sebastian Erdweg, Moritz Lichter, Manuel Weiel
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OOPSLA
2015
Springer
9 years 11 months ago
Towards a theory of conceptual design for software
es on how abstractions are to be represented as data structures, modules, and so on. Conceptual design is the domain of conventional requirements analysis, project scoping and spec...
Daniel Jackson