is a simple and elegant abstraction that allows concurrency to be expressed often through a relatively small rewrite of a sequential program. In the absence of side-effects, futur...
In this paper we propose applying the ideas of declarative debugging to the object-oriented language Java as an alternative to traditional trace debuggers used in imperative langu...
Rafael Caballero, Christian Hermanns, Herbert Kuch...
Many classical compiler optimizations can be elegantly expressed using rewrite rules of form: I = I if , where I, I are intermediate language instructions and is a property expre...
David Lacey, Neil D. Jones, Eric Van Wyk, Carl Chr...
Feedback-directed optimization (FDO) is a general term used to describe any technique that alters a program's execution based on tendencies observed in its present or past ru...
Automatic differentiation is a semantic transformation that applies the rules of differential calculus to source code. It thus transforms a computer program that computes a mathema...
Christian H. Bischof, Paul D. Hovland, Boyana Norr...