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The work described in this paper improves the reactivity of the Coq system by completely redesigning the way it processes a formal document. By subdividing such work into independent tasks the system can give precedence to the ones of immediate interest for the user and postpone the others. On the user side, a modern interface based on the PIDE middleware aggregates and presents in a consistent way the output of the prover. Finally postponed tasks are processed exploiting modern, parallel, hardware to offer better scalability.
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Notes
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In analogy with the “out-of-order execution” paradigm used in most high-performance microprocessors.
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In the Curry-Howard correspondence Coq builds upon lemmas and definitions are the same: a term of a given type. An opaque lemma is a definition one cannot unfold.
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The “
” goal selector is a new feature of Coq 8.5 made possible by this work.
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Barras, B., Tankink, C., Tassi, E. (2015). Asynchronous Processing of Coq Documents: From the Kernel up to the User Interface. In: Urban, C., Zhang, X. (eds) Interactive Theorem Proving. ITP 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9236. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22102-1_4
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