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Scalable LCF-Style Proof Translation

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All existing translations between proof assistants have been notoriously sluggy, resource-demanding, and do not scale to large developments, which has lead to the general perception that the whole approach is probably not practical. We aim to show that the observed inefficiencies are not inherent, but merely a deficiency of the existing implementations. We do so by providing a new implementation of a theory import from HOL Light to Isabelle/HOL, which achieves decent performance and scalability mostly by avoiding the mistakes of the past. After some preprocessing, our tool can import large HOL Light developments faster than HOL Light processes them. Our main target and motivation is the Flyspeck development, which can be imported in a few hours on commodity hardware. We also provide mappings for most basic types present in the developments including lists, integers and real numbers. This papers outlines some design considerations and presents a few of our extensive measurements, which reveal interesting insights in the low-level structure of larger proof developments.

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  1. University of Innsbruck, Austria

    Cezary Kaliszyk

  2. QAware GmbH, Germany

    Alexander Krauss

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  1. IRISA, Université Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042, Rennes Cedex, France

    Sandrine Blazy

  2. Université Paris-Sud, LRI, Bat 650, Univ. Paris Sud, 91405, Orsay Cedex, France

    Christine Paulin-Mohring

  3. Inria Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042, Rennes Cedex, France

    David Pichardie

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Kaliszyk, C., Krauss, A. (2013). Scalable LCF-Style Proof Translation. In: Blazy, S., Paulin-Mohring, C., Pichardie, D. (eds) Interactive Theorem Proving. ITP 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7998. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39634-2_7

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