[PRL] Torture Chamber: Friday 08/27 13:00 @ 366

[Christos Dimoulas]

Copying is evil. The title of the paper is Future Contracts and the day 
is Friday  08/28.

Christos Dimoulas wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am giving a practice talk for my PPDP paper (abstract bellow) on
> Friday at 13:00 at 366.
>
> I would appreciate it if you could attend the talk and give me your
> feedback and comments.
>
> Thank you.
>
> .Christos
>
> The higher-order aggregate problem
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>
> (with Riccardo Pucella and Matthias Felleisen)
>
> Many recent research projects focus on language support for behavioral
> software contracts, that is, assertions that govern the boundaries
> between software building blocks such as procedures, classes, or 
> modules. Contracts primarily help locate bugs in programs, but they also 
>   tend to affect the performance of the program, especially as they 
> become complex.
> In this paper, we introduce future contracts and parallel contract
> checking: software contracts annotated with future are checked in
> parallel with the main program, exploiting the nowcommon multiple-core
> architecture.We present both a model and a prototype implementation of
> our language design. Our model comprises a higher-order imperative 
> language and we use it to prove the correctness of our design. Our 
> implementation is robust enough to measure the performance of reasonably 
> large benchmarks, demonstrating that the use of future contracts can 
> lead to significant performance improvements.
>
>
>
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