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Record W2023809115 · doi:10.1145/1011508.1011510

Polymorphic specialization for ML

2004· article· en· W2023809115 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems · 2004
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicLogic, programming, and type systems
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Waterloo
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSoundnessComputer scienceSemantics (computer science)Programming languageType inferenceFunctional programmingRecursion (computer science)Linear logicInferenceLambda calculusTheoretical computer scienceOperational semanticsArtificial intelligence

Abstract

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We present a framework for offline partial evaluation for call-by-value functional programming languages with an ML-style typing discipline. This includes a binding-time analysis which is (1) polymorphic with respect to binding times; (2) allows the use of polymorphic recursion with respect to binding times; (3) is applicable to a polymorphically typed term; and (4) is proven correct with respect to a novel small-step specialization semantics.The main innovation is to build the analysis on top of the region calculus of Tofte and Talpin [1994], thus leveraging the tools and techniques developed for it. Our approach factorizes the binding-time analysis into region inference and a subsequent constraint analysis. The key insight underlying our framework is to consider binding times as properties of regions.Specialization is specified as a small-step semantics, building on previous work on syntactic-type soundness results for the region calculus. Using similar syntactic proof techniques, we prove soundness of the binding-time analysis with respect to the specializer. In addition, we prove that specialization preserves the call-by-value semantics of the region calculus by showing that the reductions of the specializer are contextual equivalences in the region calculus.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.983
Threshold uncertainty score0.624

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Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
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Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.027
GPT teacher head0.281
Teacher spread0.254 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it