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Type Systems in Resource-Aware Programming: Opportunities and Challenges

Alcides Fonseca, Guilherme Espada

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Type systems provide software developers immediate feedback about a subset of correctness properties of their programs. IDE integrations often take advantage of type systems to present errors, suggest completions and even improve navigation. On the other hand, understanding the time and energy consumption of the execution of a program requires manual testing. In this paper, we identify existing work on using type systems for energy awareness, and define the requirements for a practical approach, which the existing approaches do not address fully. Furthermore, we also discuss how existing type systems can help generalize refactors for energy-efficiency.

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  1. Formal methods only solve half my problems 2 comments

    • There is a bunch of research happening around "Resource-Aware" type theory. This kind of type theory checks performance, not just correctness. Just like the compiler can show correctness errors, the compiler could show performance stats/requirements.…

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    • There could be more linear and "resource-aware" type systems coming down the pipes through research. These would allow the type checker to show performance / resource information. Check out Resource Aware ML. https://www.raml.co/about/ https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.15211

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