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...
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...
Software systems often undergo many revisions during their lifetime as new features are added, bugs repaired, abstractions simplified and refactored, and performance improved. Wh...