Departmental Papers (CIS)
Date of this Version
1-20-2007
Document Type
Conference Paper
Recommended Citation
J. Nathan Foster, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Alan Schmitt, "A Logic Your Typechecker Can Count On: Unordered Tree Types in Practice", . January 2007.
Abstract
Type systems featuring counting constraints are often stud- ied, but seldom implemented. We describe an efficient im- plementation of a type system for unordered, edge-labeled trees based on Presburger arithmetic constraints. We begin with a type system for unordered trees and give a compilation into counting automata. We then describe an optimized implementation that provides the fundamental operations of membership and emptiness testing. Although each operation has worst-case exponential complexity, we show how to achieve reasonable performance in practice using a combination of techniques, including syntactic translations, lazy automata unfolding, hash-consing, memoization, and incremental tree processing implemented using partial evaluation. These techniques avoid constructing and examining large structures in many cases and amortize the costs of expensive operations across many computations. To demonstrate the effectiveness of these optimizations, we present experimental data from executions on realistically sized examples drawn from the Harmony data synchronizer.
Date Posted: 25 July 2012
Comments
Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Programming Language Technologies for XML (PLAN-X 2007). January 20, 2007, Nice, France.
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