Type dispatch constructs are an important feature of many programming languages.
Scheme has predicates for testing the runtime type of a value. Java has a class cast …

Systems code requires both high performance and reliability. Usually, these two goals are at
odds with each other. For example, to prevent kernel data structures from being over-written …

The widely studied I/O and ideal-cache models were developed to account for the large
difference in costs to access memory at different levels of the memory hierarchy. Both …

We provide formal semantics for a large subset of the Lua programming language, in its
version 5.2. We validate our model by mechanizing it and testing it against the test suite of …

Dynamic memory management enables a programmer to allocate objects for arbitrary
periods of time. It is an important feature of modern programming languages, and is …

A transient hardware fault occurs when an energetic particle strikes a transistor, causing it to
change state. These faults do not cause permanent damage, but may result in incorrect …

On shared memory multicore architectures, cache memory is used to accelerate program
execution by providing quick access to recently used data, but enables multiple copies of …

We present a region-based memory management scheme with support for generational
garbage collection. The scheme features a compile-time region inference algorithm, which …

We describe a derivational approach to abstract interpretation that yields novel and
transparently sound static analyses when applied to well-established abstract machines for …

Concurrent ML (CML) is an extension of Standard ML of New Jersey with concurrent
features similar to those of process algebra. In this papes we build upon John Reppy's …