We study in this paper the cost of making a concurrent programming language reversible. More specifically, we take an abstract machine for a fragment of the Oz programming language and make it reversible. We show that the overhead of the reversible machine with respect to the original one in terms of space is at most linear in the number of execution steps. We also show that this bound is tight since some programs cannot be made reversible without storing a commensurate amount of information. © 2012 IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.
A Reversible Abstract Machine and Its Space Overhead / Lienhardt, M; Lanese, I; Mezzina, C; Stefani, J-B. - 7273:(2012), pp. 1-17. ( 14th IFIP International Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems, FMOODS 2012 and the 32nd IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems, FORTE 2012 Stockholm, Sweden 13-16 June 2012) [10.1007/978-3-642-30793-5_1].
A Reversible Abstract Machine and Its Space Overhead
Mezzina C;
2012
Abstract
We study in this paper the cost of making a concurrent programming language reversible. More specifically, we take an abstract machine for a fragment of the Oz programming language and make it reversible. We show that the overhead of the reversible machine with respect to the original one in terms of space is at most linear in the number of execution steps. We also show that this bound is tight since some programs cannot be made reversible without storing a commensurate amount of information. © 2012 IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
