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Lua (programming language)

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Cooperative Concurrency Control for Write-Intensive Key-Value Workloads

Babak Falsafi, Alexandros Daglis, Mark Johnathon Sutherland

Key-Value Stores (KVS) are foundational infrastructure components for online services. Due to their latency-critical nature, today’s best-performing KVS contain a plethora of full-stack optimizations commonly targeting read-mostly, popularity-skewed worklo ...

ACM2023

Scaling Language Features for Program Verification

Georg Stefan Schmid

Formal verification of real-world software systems remains challenging for a number of reasons, including lack of automation, friction in specifying properties, and limited support for the diverse programming paradigms used in industry. In this thesis we m ...

EPFL2022

Type-Safe Metaprogramming and Compilation Techniques For Designing Efficient Systems in High-Level Languages

Lionel Emile Vincent Parreaux

Software engineering practices have been steadily moving towards higher-level programming languages and away from lower-level ones. High-level languages tend to greatly improve safety, productivity, and code maintainability because they handle various impl ...

EPFL2020

Cross-Platform Language Design

Sébastien Jean Robert Doeraene

Programming languages are increasingly compiled to multiple runtimes, each featuring their own rich structures such as their object model. Furthermore, they need to interact with other languages targeting said runtimes. A language targeting only one runtim ...

EPFL2018

SCCER-FURIES - A decision support tool for the geo-localised design and assessment of the integration of multi-carrier/multi-services/multi-grids innovative energy conversion systems in urban systems and industrial clusters - Deliverable 1.5.4

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Paul Michael Stadler

The computing platform (OSMOSELua) has been developed in the Industrial Process and Energy Systems Engineering group IPESE at EPFL as a flexible and robust tool for the design of complex integrated energy systems. The decision tool has been developed using ...

2017

Functional BIP: Embedding connectors in functional programming languages

Simon Bliudze, Joseph Sifakis, Romain Edelmann

This paper presents a theoretical foundation for functional language implementations of Behaviour–Interaction–Priority (BIP). We introduce a set of connector combinators describing synchronisation, data transfer, priorities and dynamicity in a principled w ...

Elsevier Science Inc2017

Interactive Programming by Example

Mikaël Mayer

As of today, programming has never been so accessible. Yet, it remains a challenge for end-users: students, non-technical employees, experts in their domains outside of computer science, and so on. With its forecast potential for solving problems by only o ...

EPFL2017

Verification by Reduction to Functional Programs

Régis William Blanc

In this thesis, we explore techniques for the development and verification of programs in a high-level, expressive, and safe programming language. Our programs can express problems over unbounded domains and over recursive and mutable data structures. We p ...

EPFL2017

On recursion-free Horn clauses and Craig interpolation

Viktor Kuncak, Hossein Hojjat

One of the main challenges in software verification is efficient and precise analysis of programs with procedures and loops. Interpolation methods remain among the most promising techniques for such verification. To accommodate the demands of various progr ...

Springer2015

OsmoseLua – An Integrated Approach to Energy Systems Integration with LCIA and GIS

François Maréchal, Maziar Kermani, Min-Jung Yoo, Lindsay Dianne Lessard

In this paper, we present our recent work on the implementation of an Energy Systems Integration platform allowing the modeling of Energy Systems integrating LCI (Life Cycle Inventory), LCIA (Life Cycle Impact Assessment) and GIS (Geographical Information ...

Elsevier2015

Delite: A Compiler Architecture for Performance-Oriented Embedded Domain-Specific Languages

Martin Odersky, Tiark Rompf

Developing high-performance software is a difficult task that requires the use of low-level, architecture-specific programming models (e.g., OpenMP for CMPs, CUDA for GPUs, MPI for clusters). It is typically not possible to write a single application that ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2014

Self-Assembly: Lightweight Language Extension and Datatype Generic Programming, All-in-One!

Philipp Haller, Heather Christine Klug

In this paper we show a general mechanism, called self-assembly, for lightweight language extensions (LLEs). LLEs allow users to define generic operations or properties that operate over a large class of types. With LLEs it is possible, for example, for us ...

2014

Surgical Precision JIT Compilers

Tiark Rompf

Just-in-time (JIT) compilation of running programs provides more optimization opportunities than offline compilation. Modern JIT compilers, such as those in virtual machines like Oracle's HotSpot for Java or Google's V8 for JavaScript, rely on dynamic prof ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2014

Scala Macros: Let Our Powers Combine!

Eugene Burmako

Compile-time metaprogramming has been proven immensely useful enabling programming techniques such as language virtualization, embedding of external DSLs, self-optimization, and boilerplate generation amongst many others. In the recent production release o ...

2013

Lightweight Polymorphic Effects

Martin Odersky, Philipp Haller, Lukas Rytz

Type-and-effect systems are a well-studied approach for reasoning about the computational behavior of programs. Nevertheless, there is only one example of an effect system that has been adopted in a wide-spread industrial language: Java’s checked exception ...

Springer-Verlag2012

Platform-wide Deadlock Immunity for Mobile Phones

George Candea, Horatiu Jula

We present an implementation of our deadlock immunity system, Dimmunix, for mobile phone software. Within Android 2.2 OS, we modiﬁed Dalvik VM, the JVM running all the Android applications, to provide platform-wide deadlock immunity. We successfully ran th ...

2011

Embedded Domain-Specific Languages using Libraries and Dynamic Metaprogramming

Gilles Dubochet

Domain-specific programming is bound to play a central role in improving the productivity of writing software. This is because modern, intricate, general-purpose abstractions are rarely applicable directly to everyday programming. However, such abstraction ...

EPFL2011

Lightweight Modular Staging: A Pragmatic Approach to Runtime Code Generation and Compiled DSLs

Martin Odersky, Tiark Rompf

Software engineering demands generality and abstraction, performance demands specialization and concretization. Generative programming can provide both, but the effort required to develop high-quality program generators likely offsets their benefits, even ...

2010

New generic approach for the analysis of energy conversion system models

François Maréchal, Helen Carla Becker, Raffaele Bolliger

This paper proposes a new approach in the field of energy conversion systems analysis and synthesis. The method is based on a generic and multi-platform description syntax, that clearly separates the information concerning the physical behavior of the mode ...

Elsevier2009

Computer Code as a Medium for Human Communication: Are Programming Languages Improving?

Gilles Dubochet

Programming languages are not only useful to command computers, they also increasingly are a medium for human communication. I will use the framework of distributed cognition to discuss how knowledge is shared in a team of programmers and to show that comp ...

University of Limerick2009