Modular Compilation for Higher-Order Functional Choreographies

Authors Luís Cruz-Filipe , Eva Graversen , Lovro Lugović , Fabrizio Montesi , Marco Peressotti



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Luís Cruz-Filipe
  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Eva Graversen
  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Lovro Lugović
  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Fabrizio Montesi
  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Marco Peressotti
  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

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Luís Cruz-Filipe, Eva Graversen, Lovro Lugović, Fabrizio Montesi, and Marco Peressotti. Modular Compilation for Higher-Order Functional Choreographies. In 37th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 263, pp. 7:1-7:37, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2023.7

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Choreographic programming is a paradigm for concurrent and distributed software, whereby descriptions of the intended communications (choreographies) are automatically compiled into distributed code with strong safety and liveness properties (e.g., deadlock-freedom).
Recent efforts tried to combine the theories of choreographic programming and higher-order functional programming, in order to integrate the benefits of the former with the modularity of the latter. However, they do not offer a satisfactory theory of compilation compared to the literature, because of important syntactic and semantic shortcomings: compilation is not modular (editing a part might require recompiling everything) and the generated code can perform unexpected global synchronisations.
In this paper, we find that these shortcomings are not mere coincidences. Rather, they stem from genuine new challenges posed by the integration of choreographies and functions: knowing which participants are involved in a choreography becomes nontrivial, and divergence in applications requires rethinking how to prove the semantic correctness of compilation.
We present a novel theory of compilation for functional choreographies that overcomes these challenges, based on types and a careful design of the semantics of choreographies and distributed code. The result: a modular notion of compilation, which produces code that is deadlock-free and correct (it operationally corresponds to its source choreography).

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  • Theory of computation → Lambda calculus
  • Theory of computation → Distributed computing models
  • Computing methodologies → Distributed programming languages
Keywords
  • Choreographies
  • Concurrency
  • λ-calculus
  • Type Systems

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