Strengthening Invariants for Efficient Computation
Yanhong A. Liu, Scott D. Stoller, and Tim Teitelbaum

This paper presents program analyses and transformations for strengthening invariants for the purpose of efficient computation. Finding the stronger invariants corresponds to discovering a general class of auxiliary information for any incremental computation problem. Combining the techniques with previous techniques for caching intermediate results, we obtain a systematic approach that transforms non-incremental programs into efficient incremental programs that use and maintain useful auxiliary information as well as useful intermediate results. The use of auxiliary information allows us to achieve a greater degree of incrementality than otherwise possible. Applications of the approach include strength reduction in optimizing compilers and finite differencing in transformational programming.

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