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A Reversible Abstract Machine and Its Space Overhead

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Abstract

We study in this paper the cost of making a concurrent programming language reversible. More specifically, we take an abstract machine for a fragment of the Oz programming language and make it reversible. We show that the overhead of the reversible machine with respect to the original one in terms of space is at most linear in the number of execution steps. We also show that this bound is tight since some programs cannot be made reversible without storing a commensurate amount of information.

This work has been partially supported by the French National Research Agency (ANR), project REVER n. ANR 11 INSE 007.

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  1. Focus Team, University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy

    Michael Lienhardt & Ivan Lanese

  2. SOA Unit, FBK, Trento, Italy

    Claudio Antares Mezzina

  3. INRIA Grenoble-Rhône-Alpes, France

    Jean-Bernard Stefani

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  1. Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam, Prof.-Dr.-Helmert-Straße 2-3, 14482, Potsdam, Germany

    Holger Giese

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 201 N. Goodwin, 61801, Urbana, IL, USA

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Lienhardt, M., Lanese, I., Mezzina, C.A., Stefani, JB. (2012). A Reversible Abstract Machine and Its Space Overhead. In: Giese, H., Rosu, G. (eds) Formal Techniques for Distributed Systems. FMOODS FORTE 2012 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7273. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30793-5_1

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