On Decidable Growth-Rate Properties of Imperative Programs

In 2008, Ben-Amram, Jones and Kristiansen showed that for a simple "core" programming language - an imperative language with bounded loops, and arithmetics limited to addition and multiplication - it was possible to decide precisely whether a program had certain growth-rate properties, nam...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Amir M. Ben-Amram
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Publishing Association 2010-05-01
Series:Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
Online Access:http://arxiv.org/pdf/1005.0518v1