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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.EVCS.2023.8
Stack Graphs: Name Resolution at Scale

Authors: Douglas A. Creager and Hendrik van Antwerpen

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 109, Eelco Visser Commemorative Symposium (EVCS 2023)

Abstract
We present stack graphs, an extension of Visser et al.’s scope graphs framework. Stack graphs power Precise Code Navigation at GitHub, allowing users to navigate name binding references both within and across repositories. Like scope graphs, stack graphs encode the name binding information about a program in a graph structure, in which paths represent valid name bindings. Resolving a reference to its definition is then implemented with a simple path-finding search. GitHub hosts millions of repositories, containing petabytes of total code, implemented in hundreds of different programming languages, and receiving thousands of pushes per minute. To support this scale, we ensure that the graph construction and path-finding judgments are file-incremental: for each source file, we create an isolated subgraph without any knowledge of, or visibility into, any other file in the program. This lets us eliminate the storage and compute costs of reanalyzing file versions that we have already seen. Since most commits change a small fraction of the files in a repository, this greatly amortizes the operational costs of indexing large, frequently changed repositories over time. To handle type-directed name lookups (which require "pausing" the current lookup to resolve another name), our name resolution algorithm maintains a stack of the currently paused (but still pending) lookups. Stack graphs can be constructed via a purely syntactic analysis of the program’s source code, using a new declarative graph construction language. This means that we can extract name binding information for every repository without any per-package configuration, and without having to invoke an arbitrary, untrusted, package-specific build process.
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Douglas A. Creager and Hendrik van Antwerpen. Stack Graphs: Name Resolution at Scale. In Eelco Visser Commemorative Symposium (EVCS 2023). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 109, pp. 8:1-8:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{creager_et_al:OASIcs.EVCS.2023.8,
  author =	{Creager, Douglas A. and van Antwerpen, Hendrik},
  title =	{{Stack Graphs: Name Resolution at Scale}},
  booktitle =	{Eelco Visser Commemorative Symposium (EVCS 2023)},
  pages =	{8:1--8:12},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-267-9},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{109},
  editor =	{L\"{a}mmel, Ralf and Mosses, Peter D. and Steimann, Friedrich},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.EVCS.2023.8},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-177789},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.EVCS.2023.8},
  annote =	{Keywords: Scope graphs, name binding, code navigation}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.EVCS.2023.32
Scope Graphs: The Story so Far

Authors: Aron Zwaan and Hendrik van Antwerpen

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 109, Eelco Visser Commemorative Symposium (EVCS 2023)

Abstract
Static name binding (i.e., associating references with appropriate declarations) is an essential aspect of programming languages. However, it is usually treated in an unprincipled manner, often leaving a gap between formalization and implementation. The scope graph formalism mitigates these deficiencies by providing a well-defined, first-class, language-parametric representation of name binding. Scope graphs serve as a foundation for deriving type checkers from declarative type system specifications, reasoning about type soundness, and implementing editor services and refactorings. In this paper we present an overview of scope graphs, and, using examples, show how the ideas and notation of the formalism have evolved. We also briefly discuss follow-up research beyond type checking, and evaluate the formalism.
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Aron Zwaan and Hendrik van Antwerpen. Scope Graphs: The Story so Far. In Eelco Visser Commemorative Symposium (EVCS 2023). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 109, pp. 32:1-32:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{zwaan_et_al:OASIcs.EVCS.2023.32,
  author =	{Zwaan, Aron and van Antwerpen, Hendrik},
  title =	{{Scope Graphs: The Story so Far}},
  booktitle =	{Eelco Visser Commemorative Symposium (EVCS 2023)},
  pages =	{32:1--32:13},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-267-9},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{109},
  editor =	{L\"{a}mmel, Ralf and Mosses, Peter D. and Steimann, Friedrich},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.EVCS.2023.32},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-178020},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.EVCS.2023.32},
  annote =	{Keywords: scope graph, name binding, reference resolution, type system, static semantics}
}
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Artifact
DOI: 10.4230/DARTS.7.2.1
Scope States (Artifact)

Authors: Hendrik van Antwerpen and Eelco Visser

Published in: DARTS, Volume 7, Issue 2, Special Issue of the 35th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2021)

Abstract
Compilers that can type check compilation units in parallel can make more efficient use of multi-core architectures, which are nowadays widespread. Developing parallel type checker implementations is complicated by the need to handle concurrency and synchronization of parallel compilation units. This artifact contains benchmarks and sources for a new framework for implementing hierarchical type checkers that provides implicit parallel execution in the presence of dynamic and mutual dependencies between compilation units. The resulting type checkers can be written without explicit handling of communication or synchronization between different compilation units. We achieve this by providing type checkers with an API for name resolution based on scope graphs, a language-independent formalism that supports a wide range of binding patterns. Our framework is implemented in Java using the actor paradigm. We evaluated our approach by parallelizing the solver for Statix, a meta-language for type checkers based on scope graphs, using our framework. Benchmarks show that the approach results in speedups for the parallel Statix solver of up to 5.0x on 8 cores for real-world code bases.
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Hendrik van Antwerpen and Eelco Visser. Scope States (Artifact). In Special Issue of the 35th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2021). Dagstuhl Artifacts Series (DARTS), Volume 7, Issue 2, pp. 1:1-1:7, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)

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@Article{vanantwerpen_et_al:DARTS.7.2.1,
  author =	{van Antwerpen, Hendrik and Visser, Eelco},
  title =	{{Scope States (Artifact)}},
  pages =	{1:1--1:7},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Artifacts Series},
  ISSN =	{2509-8195},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{7},
  number =	{2},
  editor =	{van Antwerpen, Hendrik and Visser, Eelco},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DARTS.7.2.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-140259},
  doi =		{10.4230/DARTS.7.2.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: type checking, name resolution, parallel algorithms}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2021.1
Scope States: Guarding Safety of Name Resolution in Parallel Type Checkers

Authors: Hendrik van Antwerpen and Eelco Visser

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 194, 35th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2021)

Abstract
Compilers that can type check compilation units in parallel can make more efficient use of multi-core architectures, which are nowadays widespread. Developing parallel type checker implementations is complicated by the need to handle concurrency and synchronization of parallel compilation units. Dependencies between compilation units are induced by name resolution, and a parallel type checker needs to ensure that units have defined all relevant names before other units do a lookup. Mutually recursive references and implicitly discovered dependencies between compilation units preclude determining a static compilation order for many programming languages. In this paper, we present a new framework for implementing hierarchical type checkers that provides implicit parallel execution in the presence of dynamic and mutual dependencies between compilation units. The resulting type checkers can be written without explicit handling of communication or synchronization between different compilation units. We achieve this by providing type checkers with an API for name resolution based on scope graphs, a language-independent formalism that supports a wide range of binding patterns. We introduce the notion of scope state to ensure safe name resolution. Scope state tracks the completeness of a scope, and is used to decide whether a scope graph query between compilation units must be delayed. Our framework is implemented in Java using the actor paradigm. We evaluated our approach by parallelizing the solver for Statix, a meta-language for type checkers based on scope graphs, using our framework. This parallelizes every Statix-based type checker, provided its specification follows a split declaration-type style. Benchmarks show that the approach results in speedups for the parallel Statix solver of up to 5.0x on 8 cores for real-world code bases.
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Hendrik van Antwerpen and Eelco Visser. Scope States: Guarding Safety of Name Resolution in Parallel Type Checkers. In 35th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 194, pp. 1:1-1:29, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)

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@InProceedings{vanantwerpen_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2021.1,
  author =	{van Antwerpen, Hendrik and Visser, Eelco},
  title =	{{Scope States: Guarding Safety of Name Resolution in Parallel Type Checkers}},
  booktitle =	{35th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2021)},
  pages =	{1:1--1:29},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-190-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{194},
  editor =	{M{\o}ller, Anders and Sridharan, Manu},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2021.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-140441},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2021.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: type checking, name resolution, parallel algorithms}
}
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Brave New Idea Paper
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2019.26
Towards Language-Parametric Semantic Editor Services Based on Declarative Type System Specifications (Brave New Idea Paper)

Authors: Daniel A. A. Pelsmaeker, Hendrik van Antwerpen, and Eelco Visser

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 134, 33rd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2019)

Abstract
Editor services assist programmers to more effectively write and comprehend code. Implementing editor services correctly is not trivial. This paper focuses on the specification of semantic editor services, those that use the semantic model of a program. The specification of refactorings is a common subject of study, but many other semantic editor services have received little attention. We propose a language-parametric approach to the definition of semantic editor services, using a declarative specification of the static semantics of the programming language, and constraint solving. Editor services are specified as constraint problems, and language specifications are used to ensure correctness. We describe our approach for the following semantic editor services: reference resolution, find usages, goto subclasses, code completion, and the extract definition refactoring. We do this in the context of Statix, a constraint language for the specification of type systems. We investigate the specification of editor services in terms of Statix constraints, and the requirements these impose on a suitable solver.
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Daniel A. A. Pelsmaeker, Hendrik van Antwerpen, and Eelco Visser. Towards Language-Parametric Semantic Editor Services Based on Declarative Type System Specifications (Brave New Idea Paper). In 33rd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 134, pp. 26:1-26:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)

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@InProceedings{pelsmaeker_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2019.26,
  author =	{Pelsmaeker, Daniel A. A. and van Antwerpen, Hendrik and Visser, Eelco},
  title =	{{Towards Language-Parametric Semantic Editor Services Based on Declarative Type System Specifications}},
  booktitle =	{33rd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2019)},
  pages =	{26:1--26:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-111-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{134},
  editor =	{Donaldson, Alastair F.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2019.26},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-108182},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2019.26},
  annote =	{Keywords: semantics, constraint solving, Statix, name binding, editor services, reference resolution, code completion, refactoring}
}
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