Title
A Programming Model for Semi-Implicit Parallelization of Static Analyses
Abstract
Parallelization of static analyses is necessary to scale to real-world programs, but it is a complex and difficult task and, therefore, often only done manually for selected high-profile analyses. In this paper, we propose a programming model for semi-implicit parallelization of static analyses which is inspired by reactive programming. Reusing the domain-expert knowledge on how to parallelize anal- yses encoded in the programming framework, developers do not need to think about parallelization and concurrency issues on their own. The programming model supports stateful computations, only requires monotonic computations over lattices, and is independent of specific analyses. Our evaluation shows the applicability of the programming model to different analyses and the importance of user-selected scheduling strategies. We implemented an IFDS solver that was able to outperform a state-of-the-art, specialized parallel IFDS solver both in absolute performance and scalability.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3395363.3397367
ISSTA '20: 29th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis Virtual Event USA July, 2020
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-8008-9
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
12
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dominik Helm152.79
Florian Kübler283.17
Jan Thomas Kölzer310.35
Philipp Haller444127.11
Michael Eichberg534828.34
Guido Salvaneschi635434.50
Mira Mezini73171211.04