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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SNAPL.2017.2

Domain-Specific Symbolic Compilation

Authors: Rastislav Bodík, Kartik Chandra, Phitchaya Mangpo Phothilimthana, and Nathaniel Yazdani

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 71, 2nd Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (SNAPL 2017)

Abstract

A symbolic compiler translates a program to symbolic constraints, automatically reducing model checking and synthesis to constraint solving. We show that new applications of constraint solving require domain-specific encodings that yield the required orders of magnitude improvements in solver efficiency. Unfortunately, these encodings cannot be obtained with today's symbolic compilation. We introduce symbolic languages that encapsulate domain-specific encodings under abstractions that behave as their non-symbolic counterparts: client code using the abstractions can be tested and debugged on concrete inputs. When client code is symbolically compiled, the resulting constraints use domain-specific encodings. We demonstrate the idea on the first fully symbolic checker of type systems; a program partitioner; and a parallelizer of tree computations. In each of these case studies, symbolic languages improved on classical symbolic compilers by orders of magnitude.

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Rastislav Bodík, Kartik Chandra, Phitchaya Mangpo Phothilimthana, and Nathaniel Yazdani. Domain-Specific Symbolic Compilation. In 2nd Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (SNAPL 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 71, pp. 2:1-2:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)

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@InProceedings{bodik_et_al:LIPIcs.SNAPL.2017.2,
  author =	{Bod{\'\i}k, Rastislav and Chandra, Kartik and Phothilimthana, Phitchaya Mangpo and Yazdani, Nathaniel},
  title =	{{Domain-Specific Symbolic Compilation}},
  booktitle =	{2nd Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (SNAPL 2017)},
  pages =	{2:1--2:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-032-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{71},
  editor =	{Lerner, Benjamin S. and Bod{\'\i}k, Rastislav and Krishnamurthi, Shriram},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SNAPL.2017.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-71334},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SNAPL.2017.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: Symbolic evaluation, program synthesis, DSLs}
}

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