Verona is a concurrent object-oriented programming language that organises all the objects in a program into a forest of isolated regions. Memory is managed locally for each region, so programmers can control a program's memory use by adjusting objects' partition into regions, and by setting each region's memory management strategy. A thread can only mutate (allocate, deallocate) objects within one active region—its "window of mutability". Memory management costs are localised to the active region, ensuring overheads can be predicted and controlled. Moving the mutability window between regions is explicit, so code can be executed wherever it is required, yet programs remain in control of memory use. An ownership type system based on reference capabilities enforces region isolation, controlling aliasing within and between regions, yet supporting objects moving between regions and threads. Data accesses never need expensive atomic operations, and are always thread-safe.
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11:00 18mTalk | Reference Capabilities for Flexible Memory Management OOPSLA Ellen Arvidsson Uppsala University, Elias Castegren Uppsala University, Sylvan Clebsch Microsoft Azure Research, Sophia Drossopoulou Imperial College London, James Noble Research & Programming, Matthew J. Parkinson Microsoft Azure Research, Tobias Wrigstad Uppsala University DOI Pre-print | ||
11:18 18mTalk | A Grounded Conceptual Model for Ownership Types in Rust OOPSLA DOI Pre-print | ||
11:36 18mTalk | Inference of Resource Management Specifications OOPSLA Narges Shadab University of California at Riverside, Pritam Gharat Microsoft Research, Shrey Tiwari Microsoft Research, Michael D. Ernst University of Washington, Martin Kellogg New Jersey Institute of Technology, Shuvendu Lahiri Microsoft Research, Akash Lal Microsoft Research, Manu Sridharan University of California at Riverside DOI | ||
11:54 18mTalk | Resource-Aware Soundness for Big-Step Semantics OOPSLA Riccardo Bianchini University of Genoa, Francesco Dagnino University of Genoa, Paola Giannini University of Eastern Piedmont, Elena Zucca University of Genoa DOI | ||
12:12 18mTalk | Verus: Verifying Rust Programs using Linear Ghost Types OOPSLA Andrea Lattuada VMware Research, Travis Hance Carnegie Mellon University, Chanhee Cho Carnegie Mellon University, Matthias Brun ETH Zurich, Isitha Subasinghe UNSW Sydney, Yi Zhou Carnegie Mellon University, Jon Howell VMware Research, Bryan Parno Carnegie Mellon University, Chris Hawblitzel Microsoft Research DOI | ||