Technical report Frank / Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität, Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik, Institut für Informatik
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On conservativity of concurrent Haskell
(2011)
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David Sabel
Manfred Schmidt-Schauß
- The calculus CHF models Concurrent Haskell extended by
concurrent, implicit futures. It is a process calculus with concurrent threads, monadic concurrent evaluation, and includes a pure functional
lambda-calculus which comprises data constructors, case-expressions,
letrec-expressions, and Haskell’s seq. Futures can be implemented in Concurrent
Haskell using the primitive unsafeInterleaveIO, which is available in most implementations of Haskell. Our main result is conservativity
of CHF, that is, all equivalences of pure functional expressions are
also valid in CHF. This implies that compiler optimizations and transformations
from pure Haskell remain valid in Concurrent Haskell even if
it is extended by futures. We also show that this is no longer valid if Concurrent
Haskell is extended by the arbitrary use of unsafeInterleaveIO.
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Program Equivalence for a Concurrent Lambda Calculus with Futures
(2006)
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Joachim Niehren
David Sabel
Manfred Schmidt-Schauß
Jan Schwinghammer
- Reasoning about the correctness of program transformations requires a notion of program equivalence. We present an observational semantics for the concurrent lambda calculus with futures Lambda(fut), which formalizes the operational semantics of the programming language Alice ML. We show that natural program optimizations, as well as partial evaluation with respect to deterministic rules, are correct for Lambda(fut). This relies on a number of fundamental properties that we establish for our observational semantics.
