The support for precise exceptions in Java, combined with frequent checks for runtime exceptions, leads to severe limitations on the compiler’s ability to perform program optimiz...
The main difficulty in the formalization of a static analysis framework for CC programs is probably related to the correct approximation of the entailment relation between constrai...
Atomicity is an important specification that enables programmers to understand atomic blocks of code in a multi-threaded program as if they are sequential. This significantly simp...
As improvements in processor speed continue to outpace improvements in cache and memory speed, poor locality increasingly degrades performance. Because copying garbage collectors ...
Xianglong Huang, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. ...
Program transformation systems provide one means of formally deriving a program from its speci cation. The main advantage of this development method is that the executable program...